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Conservative vs. Libertarian

Conservative and Libertarian Definitions

Conservative

Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.

Libertarian

One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.

Conservative

Traditional or restrained in style
A conservative dark suit.

Libertarian

One who believes in free will.

Conservative

Moderate; cautious
A conservative estimate.

Libertarian

One who advocates liberty, either generally or in relation to a specific issue.
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Conservative

Of or relating to the political philosophy of conservatism.

Libertarian

A believer in right-libertarianism, a political doctrine that emphasizes individual liberty and a lack of governmental regulation, intervention, and oversight both in matters of the economy (‘free market’) and in personal behavior where no one’s rights are being violated or threatened.

Conservative

Belonging to a conservative party, group, or movement.

Libertarian

A left-libertarian, an antiauthoritarian believer in both individual freedom and social justice (social equality and mutual aid).

Conservative

Conservative Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political conservatism, especially in the United Kingdom or Canada.

Libertarian

(philosophy) A believer in the freedom of thinking beings to choose their own destiny, i.e. a believer in free will as opposed to those who believe the future is predetermined.
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Conservative

Conservative Of or adhering to Conservative Judaism.

Libertarian

Having the beliefs of libertarians; having a relative tendency towards liberty.
He has libertarian views.
A libertarian capitalist.

Conservative

Tending to conserve; preservative
The conservative use of natural resources.

Libertarian

(dated) Relating to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

Conservative

One favoring traditional views and values.

Libertarian

Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
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Conservative

A supporter of political conservatism.

Libertarian

One who holds to the doctrine of free will.

Conservative

Conservative A member or supporter of a Conservative political party.

Libertarian

Someone who believes the doctrine of free will

Conservative

A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.

Conservative

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

Conservative

A person who favors decentralization of political power and disfavors interventionist foreign policy.

Conservative

A fiscal conservative.

Conservative

A social conservative.

Conservative

Cautious, moderate.
The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish.

Conservative

Tending to resist change or innovation.
The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.

Conservative

Based on pessimistic assumptions.
At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.

Conservative

Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.

Conservative

Relating to the Conservative Party.

Conservative

Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

Conservative

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

Conservative

(Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.

Conservative

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

Conservative

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

Conservative

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

Conservative

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

Conservative

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

Conservative

One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life.

Conservative

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

Conservative

A member of the Conservative party.

Conservative

A person who has conservative ideas or opinions

Conservative

Resistant to change

Conservative

Opposed to liberal reforms

Conservative

Avoiding excess;
A conservative estimate

Conservative

Unimaginatively conventional;
A colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business

Conservative

Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;
A bourgeois mentality

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