Conservative vs Antediluvian - What's the difference?
conservative | antediluvian |
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.
Ancient or antiquated; old; prehistoric.
Supremely dated.
Pertaining or belonging to the time period prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge.
(biblical) Pertaining or belonging to the time prior to Noah's Flood.
As a proper noun conservative
is conservative party.As an adjective antediluvian is
ancient or antiquated; old; prehistoric.As a noun antediluvian is
one who lived prior to noah's flood.conservative
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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.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "conservative")See also
* ("conservative" on Wikipedia) * Labour Party * liberal * Republican party * Tory ----antediluvian
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(wikipedia antediluvian)Adjective
(en adjective)- Those ideas are antediluvian.