Broadminded vs Conservative - What's the difference?
broadminded | conservative |
Willing to experience new and exotic things (often controversial things) without judging them beforehand.
A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.
(US, economics) A fiscal conservative
(US, politics) A political conservative
(US, social sciences) A social conservative.
Tending to resist change or innovation.
Based on pessimistic assumptions.
(US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
(US, politics) Relating to the Republican Party, regardless of its conservatism.
(British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
* 1830 , Quarterly Rev.
(physics, notcomp) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
As adjectives the difference between broadminded and conservative
is that broadminded is willing to experience new and exotic things (often controversial things) without judging them beforehand while conservative is tending to resist change or innovation.As a noun conservative is
a person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.As a proper noun Conservative is
conservative Party.broadminded
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Adjective
(en adjective)Alternative forms
* broad-mindedconservative
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* traditionalist * right-wingerCoordinate terms
* moderate, liberal, progressive, libertarian, centristAdjective
(en adjective)- The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative .
- At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.
- We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative , party.
