Centrist vs. Conservative

Centristadjective

Of, pertaining to, or advocating centrism.

Centristnoun

A person who advocates centrism.

Centristnoun

a person who takes a position in the political center

Centristadjective

supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative

Conservativenoun

A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.

Conservativenoun

(politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.

Conservativenoun

A political conservative.

Conservativenoun

A fiscal conservative.

Conservativenoun

A social conservative.

Conservativeadjective

Cautious.

Conservativeadjective

Tending to resist change or innovation.

Conservativeadjective

Based on pessimistic assumptions.

Conservativeadjective

Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.

Conservativeadjective

Relating to the Conservative Party.

Conservativeadjective

Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

Conservativeadjective

Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.

Conservativeadjective

(Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.

Conservativeadjective

(clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.

Conservativeadjective

(medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)

Conservativeadjective

Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.

Conservativeadjective

Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.

Conservativeadjective

Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; - contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.

Conservativenoun

One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.

Conservativenoun

One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; - opposed to revolutionary or radical.

Conservativenoun

A member of the Conservative party.

Conservativenoun

a person who has conservative ideas or opinions

Conservativeadjective

resistant to change

Conservativeadjective

opposed to liberal reforms

Conservativeadjective

avoiding excess;

Conservativeadjective

unimaginatively conventional;

Conservativeadjective

conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;