Conservatory vs Conservative - What's the difference?
conservatory | conservative |
(rare) pertaining to conservation
Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
(obsolete) That which preserves from injury.
A greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants
A school of music or drama; a conservatoire
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 conservatory and conservative
is that conservatory is pertaining to conservation while conservative is tending to resist change or innovation.As nouns the difference between conservatory and conservative
is that conservatory is that which preserves from injury while 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.conservatory
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(conservatories)- A conservatory of life. — Jeremy Taylor.
Etymology 2
Noun
(conservatories)Synonyms
(music) * college of music * conservatory of music * musical school * music conservatory * music department * music school * school of music (drama) * academy of drama * drama school * theater school * theatre schoolconservative
English
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.
