Conservationist vs Conservative - What's the difference?
conservationist | conservative | Related terms |
A person who maintains natural areas or protects threatened species.
Someone who advocates for these actions.
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.
Conservative is a related term of conservationist.
As nouns the difference between conservationist and conservative
is that conservationist is a person who maintains natural areas or protects threatened species while conservative is a person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.As an adjective conservative is
tending to resist change or innovation.As a proper noun Conservative is
conservative Party.conservationist
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(en noun)See also
* environmentalistAnagrams
*conservative
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(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.
