having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.-tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.-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.-one who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.-one who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.-a member of the conservative party.