Conservative vs. Moderate

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;

Moderateadjective

Not excessive; acting in moderation

Moderateadjective

Mediocre

Moderateadjective

Average priced; standard-deal

Moderateadjective

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.

Moderateadjective

Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

Moderatenoun

One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.

Moderateverb

(transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something)

Moderateverb

(intransitive) To become less excessive

Moderateverb

(transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator

Moderateverb

(intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise

Moderateadjective

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

Moderateadjective

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.

Moderatenoun

One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.

Moderateverb

To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.

Moderateverb

To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting or a discussion; as, to moderate a synod; to moderate a debate.

Moderateverb

To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.

Moderateverb

To preside as a moderator.

Moderatenoun

a person who takes a position in the political center

Moderateverb

preside over;

Moderateverb

make less fast or intense;

Moderateverb

lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits;

Moderateverb

make less severe or harsh;

Moderateverb

make less strong or intense; soften;

Moderateverb

restrain or temper

Moderateadjective

being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme;

Moderateadjective

not extreme;

Moderateadjective

marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes;