Centrist vs. Conservative

Of, pertaining to, or advocating centrism.

A person who advocates centrism.

a person who takes a position in the political center

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

A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.

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

A political conservative.

A fiscal conservative.

A social conservative.

Cautious.

Tending to resist change or innovation.

Example: ‘The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.’;

Based on pessimistic assumptions.

Example: ‘At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.’;

Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.

Relating to the Conservative Party.

Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

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

(Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.

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

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

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

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

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.

Example: ‘We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.’;

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

Example: ‘The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life.’;

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

A member of the Conservative party.

a person who has conservative ideas or opinions

resistant to change

opposed to liberal reforms

avoiding excess;

Example: ‘a conservative estimate’;

unimaginatively conventional;

Example: ‘a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business’;

conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;

Example: ‘a bourgeois mentality’;