Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: conservative
IPA transcription: [kəns'ɝvətɪv]
Pronunciations of conservative
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: conservative
    Meaning: resistant to change
  • Synonyms: conservative
    Meaning: having social or political views favoring conservatism
  • Synonyms: cautious, conservative
    Meaning: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: conservative, conservativist
    Meaning: a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
Usage examples
  • He turned suddenly to his companion, the Conservative agent.
  • "They want stirring up a bit," said the Conservative agent despondently.
  • The time to temporize, theorize, be conservative and easy-going has gone by.
  • Selwyn now devoted himself to the making of enough conservative senators to control comfortably that body.
  • "If it does," said Paul, "it will be associated with the immediate retirement of the Conservative candidate."
  • I know another man, a conservative capitalist of narrow and aggressive temper, whose wife turned into an ardent Bolshevik.
  • The conservative suffrage leaders, although they heartily disapproved of , picketing, were as outspoken in their gratitude.
  • They asked numerous questions as they helped her to unpack and settle her room, but accepted her conservative answers without comment.
  • But man is a desperately conservative creature, and the extravagant novelty of this outrage upon his purse distressed his sensibilities.
  • There had been a medical lobby long before, but it had been a conservative group, mostly concerned with protecting medical autonomy and ethics.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Munich, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Altrincham, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording George Lansbury, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Mission Praise, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording George H. W. Bush, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ayn Rand, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Social anxiety, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Canada, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Harvey Milk, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sequence alignment, License CC BY-SA 4.0