Liberal vs. Conservative

Liberaladjective

Pertaining to those arts and sciences the study of which is considered to provide general knowledge, as opposed to vocational/occupational, technical or mechanical training.

‘He had a full education studying the liberal arts.’;

Conservativenoun

A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.

Liberaladjective

Generous; willing to give unsparingly.

‘He was liberal with his compliments.’;

Conservativenoun

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

Liberaladjective

Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.

‘Add a liberal sprinkling of salt.’;

Conservativenoun

A political conservative.

Liberaladjective

(obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.

Conservativenoun

A fiscal conservative.

Liberaladjective

Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.

‘Her parents had liberal ideas about child-rearing.’;

Conservativenoun

A social conservative.

Liberaladjective

(politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.

Conservativeadjective

Cautious.

Liberalnoun

One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).

Conservativeadjective

Tending to resist change or innovation.

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

Liberalnoun

(US) Someone left-wing; one with a left-wing ideology.

Conservativeadjective

Based on pessimistic assumptions.

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

Liberalnoun

A supporter of any of several liberal parties.

Conservativeadjective

Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.

Liberalnoun

(UK) One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets also called "classical liberal"; compare libertarian.

Conservativeadjective

Relating to the Conservative Party.

Liberaladjective

Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies.

Conservativeadjective

Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

Liberaladjective

Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver.

‘Infinitely good, and of his goodAs liberal and free as infinite.’;

Conservativeadjective

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

Liberaladjective

Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water.

‘His wealth doth warrant a liberal dower.’;

Conservativeadjective

(Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.

Liberaladjective

Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.

Conservativeadjective

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

Liberaladjective

Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish; enlarged in spirit; catholic.

Conservativeadjective

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

Liberaladjective

Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious.

Conservativeadjective

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

Liberaladjective

Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party.

‘I confess I see nothing liberal in this " order of thoughts," as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it.’;

Conservativeadjective

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

Liberalnoun

One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.

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.

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

Liberalnoun

a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

Conservativenoun

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.’;

Liberalnoun

a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

Conservativenoun

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

Liberaladjective

showing or characterized by broad-mindedness;

‘a broad political stance’; ‘generous and broad sympathies’; ‘a liberal newspaper’; ‘tolerant of his opponent's opinions’;

Conservativenoun

A member of the Conservative party.

Liberaladjective

having political or social views favoring reform and progress

Conservativenoun

a person who has conservative ideas or opinions

Liberaladjective

tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition

Conservativeadjective

resistant to change

Liberaladjective

given or giving freely;

‘was a big tipper’; ‘the bounteous goodness of God’; ‘bountiful compliments’; ‘a freehanded host’; ‘a handsome allowance’; ‘Saturday's child is loving and giving’; ‘a liberal backer of the arts’; ‘a munificent gift’; ‘her fond and openhanded grandfather’;

Conservativeadjective

opposed to liberal reforms

Liberaladjective

not literal;

‘a loose interpretation of what she had been told’; ‘a free translation of the poem’;

Conservativeadjective

avoiding excess;

‘a conservative estimate’;

Conservativeadjective

unimaginatively conventional;

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

Conservativeadjective

conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;

‘a bourgeois mentality’;