Conservative and Socialist

Opposite meaning words

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

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Socialist is an antonym for conservative.

Socialist adjective - Advocating or following the socialist principles.

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Conservative is an antonym for socialist in topics: politically radical, card-carrying communist.

moderate	moderate conservative	moderate socialist
actual	actual conservative	actual socialist
staunch	staunch conservative	staunch socialist
outspoken	outspoken conservative	outspoken socialist
Other adjectives: social, dedicated, rabid, former, token, self-described.

Nancy was a novelist, and Deborah is the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was considered to be a moderate socialist, and Deborah a moderate conservative.

Source: Sibling Yin-Yang
By that time, militant Fascism had evolved and been used by largely conservative and anti-liberal governments to suppress the socialist and communist movements.

Source: World War II / Prelude To War
Novaya Gazeta - a supposedly independent newspaper with liberal (as in, old-school liberal, what Americans call conservative, not quasi-socialist) and pro-Western leanings.

Source: Russian Reading

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