Conservative vs. Moderate — What's the Difference?

Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.

Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme

Traditional or restrained in style

Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate

Moderate; cautious

Of medium or average quantity or extent.

Of or relating to the political philosophy of conservatism.

Of limited or average quality; mediocre.

Belonging to a conservative party, group, or movement.

Opposed to radical or extreme views or measures, especially in politics or religion.

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.

One who holds or champions moderate views or opinions, especially in politics or religion.

Conservative Of or adhering to Conservative Judaism.

To cause to be less extreme, intense, or violent.

Tending to conserve; preservative

To preside over

One favoring traditional views and values.

To become less extreme, intense, or violent; abate.

A supporter of political conservatism.

To act as a moderator.

Conservative A member or supporter of a Conservative political party.

Not excessive; acting in moderation

A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.

More than mild, less than severe

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

Mediocre

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

Average priced; standard-deal

A fiscal conservative.

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.

A social conservative.

Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

Cautious, moderate.

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

Tending to resist change or innovation.

One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.

Based on pessimistic assumptions.

(transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something)

Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.

(intransitive) To become less excessive

Relating to the Conservative Party.

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

Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

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

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

To supply with a moderator substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission.

(Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

To preside as a moderator.

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

A person who takes a position in the political center

A member of the Conservative party.

Preside over;

A person who has conservative ideas or opinions

Make less fast or intense;

Resistant to change

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

Opposed to liberal reforms

Make less severe or harsh;

Avoiding excess;

Make less strong or intense; soften;

Unimaginatively conventional;

Restrain or temper

Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;

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

Not extreme;

Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes;