Conservative and Radical

Opposite meaning words

Conservative adjective - Tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions.

Usage example: conservative baseball fans consider the new ballpark too modern-looking and plain ugly

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Radical adjective - Being very far from the center of public opinion.

Usage example: the baggy trousers that Amelia Bloomer introduced in the 1850s were considered a radical form of dress for women at the time

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Conservative is an antonym for radical in topics: extremist, fundamental, deviating by extremes, often extreme change.

Nearby Words: radically, radicalism, radicalize, radicalise, radicalised

Reasonable Authority Figure: Martin Luther King in his interactions with various factions of the civil rights movement, having to ease out the differences between the more conservative and radical factions.

Source: Theatre / All The Way
I'm liberal, you're radical, he's a bomb-throwing anarchist; I'm cautious, you're conservative, he's puritanical.

Source: No, Except Yes aka: Yes Except No
This also applies for a new radical newspaper, camouflaged inside a more conservative one.

Source: Literature / Beatles

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