Conservative vs Insular - What's the difference?
conservative | insular |
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.
Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands.
* 1836 , , Astoria , ch. 6:
Situated on an island.
* 1851 , , Moby-Dick , ch. 1:
Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little interaction with external parties; provincial.
* 1903 , , Call of the Wild , ch. 1:
Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
* 1905 , , Where Angels Fear to Tread , ch. 6:
Relating to the insula in the brain.
As nouns the difference between conservative and insular
is that conservative is a person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status while insular is an islander.As adjectives the difference between conservative and insular
is that conservative is tending to resist change or innovation while insular is of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands.As a proper noun Conservative
is conservative Party.conservative
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.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "conservative")See also
* ("conservative" on Wikipedia) * Labour Party * liberal * Republican party * Tory ----insular
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Adjective
(en adjective)- With these he held undisputed sway over his insular domains, and carried on intercourse with the chiefs or governors whom he had placed in command of the several islands.
- There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs.
- [H]e had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.
- Harriet was fretful and insular . Miss Abbott was pleasant, and insisted on praising everything.
