Conservative vs. Radical — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Conservative and Radical
ADVERTISEMENT
Compare with Definitions
Conservative
Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
Radical
Arising from or going to a root or source; basic
Proposed a radical solution to the problem.
Conservative
Traditional or restrained in style
A conservative dark suit.
Radical
Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme or drastic
A radical change in diet.
Conservative
Moderate; cautious
A conservative estimate.
ADVERTISEMENT
Radical
Relating to or advocating fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions
Radical politics.
A radical political theorist.
Conservative
Of or relating to the political philosophy of conservatism.
Radical
(Medicine) Relating to or being surgery that is extreme or drastic in an effort to eradicate all existing or potential disease
Radical hysterectomy.
Conservative
Belonging to a conservative party, group, or movement.
Radical
(Linguistics) Of or being a root
A radical form.
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.
Radical
Of, relating to, or arising from a root
Radical hairs.
Conservative
Conservative Of or adhering to Conservative Judaism.
Radical
Arising from the base of a stem or from a below-ground stem or rhizome
Radical leaves.
Conservative
Tending to conserve; preservative
The conservative use of natural resources.
Radical
(Slang) Excellent; wonderful.
Conservative
One favoring traditional views and values.
Radical
One who advocates fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions
Radicals seeking to overthrow the social order.
Conservative
A supporter of political conservatism.
Radical
(Mathematics) The root of a quantity as indicated by the radical sign.
Conservative
Conservative A member or supporter of a Conservative political party.
Radical
Symbol R An atom or a group of atoms with one unpaired electron.
Conservative
A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
Radical
(Linguistics) See root1.
Conservative
(politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.
Radical
Any of the basic Chinese characters that are combined to form more complex characters.
Conservative
A person who favors decentralization of political power and disfavors interventionist foreign policy.
Radical
Any of the traditional set of basic strokes or groups of strokes that make up Chinese characters and are used to classify and organize them in dictionaries.
Conservative
A fiscal conservative.
Radical
Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
His beliefs are radical.
Conservative
A social conservative.
Radical
Pertaining to a root of a plant.
Conservative
Cautious, moderate.
The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish.
Radical
Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
Conservative
Tending to resist change or innovation.
The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.
Radical
Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
The spread of the cancer required radical surgery, and the entire organ was removed.
Conservative
Based on pessimistic assumptions.
At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.
Radical
Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
Conservative
Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
Radical
Produced using the root of the tongue.
Conservative
Relating to the Conservative Party.
Radical
Involving free radicals.
Conservative
Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
Radical
(math) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
A radical quantity; a radical sign
Conservative
Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
Radical
Excellent; awesome.
That was a radical jump!
Conservative
(Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
Radical
A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
Conservative
(clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
Radical
A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
Conservative
(medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
Radical
A person with radical opinions.
Conservative
Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
Radical
(arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
Conservative
Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
Radical
(linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
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.
Radical
(linguistics)Celtic In Celtic languages, refers to the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.
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.
Radical
(linguistics)Semitic linguistics In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
Conservative
One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; - opposed to revolutionary or radical.
Radical
(chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
Conservative
A member of the Conservative party.
Radical
(organic chemistry) A free radical.
Conservative
A person who has conservative ideas or opinions
Radical
Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or , such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xn ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
Conservative
Resistant to change
Radical
Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
Conservative
Opposed to liberal reforms
Radical
The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
Conservative
Avoiding excess;
A conservative estimate
Radical
(number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
Conservative
Unimaginatively conventional;
A colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business
Radical
Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.
Conservative
Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;
A bourgeois mentality
Radical
Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to the principles, or the like; original; fundamental; thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party.
The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.
Radical
Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant; as, radical tubers or hairs.
Radical
Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form.
Radical
Of or pertaining to a radix or root; as, a radical quantity; a radical sign. See below.
Radical
A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon.
The words we at present make use of, and understand only by common agreement, assume a new air and life in the understanding, when you trace them to their radicals, where you find every word strongly stamped with nature; full of energy, meaning, character, painting, and poetry.
Radical
One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; - opposed to conservative.
In politics they [the Independents] were, to use the phrase of their own time, "Root-and-Branch men," or, to use the kindred phrase of our own, Radicals.
Radical
A characteristic, essential, and fundamental constituent of any compound; hence, sometimes, an atom.
As a general rule, the metallic atoms are basic radicals, while the nonmetallic atoms are acid radicals.
Radical
Specifically, a group of two or more atoms, not completely saturated, which are so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; - called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue.
Radical
(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
Radical
An atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule than has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule;
In the body free radicals are high-energy particles that ricochet wildly and damage cells
Radical
A person who has radical ideas or opinions
Radical
A character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
Radical
A sign placed in front of an expression to denote that a root is to be extracted
Radical
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
Thematic vowels are part of the stem
Radical
(used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm;
Extremist political views
Radical opinions on education
An ultra conservative
Radical
Markedly new or introducing radical change;
A revolutionary discovery
Radical political views
Radical
Arising from or going to the root;
A radical flaw in the plan
Radical
Of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root;
A radical verb form
Radical
Especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem;
Basal placentation
Radical leaves
Share Your Discovery
Previous Comparison
Grow vs. Build
Next Comparison
Talmud vs. Midrash
