| Main Entry: | bourgeois |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, Victorian, common, conservative, conventional, hidebound, illiberal, materialistic, middle-class, old-line, traditional |
Antonyms: |
adventurous, imaginative, inspired, nonconforming, original, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | conservative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo |
Synonyms: |
Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread |
Antonyms: |
exaggerated, incautious, left-wing, liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | die-hard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncompromising |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, Tory, conservative, convinced, dyed-in-the-wool, extremist, firm, fogyish, immovable, inflexible, intransigent, old-line, orthodox, reactionary, right, standpat, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unreconstructed |
Antonyms: |
compromising, conceding, flexible |
| Main Entry: | old school |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traditional |
Synonyms: |
acceptable, accustomed, classic, classical, conservative, conventional, customary, habitual, long-established, old, old line, popular, regular, rooted, time-honored |
| Main Entry: | orthodox |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accepted, traditional |
Synonyms: |
according to the book, acknowledged, admitted, approved, authoritative, buttoned-down, by the numbers, canonical, conformist, conservative, conventional, correct, customary, devout, die-hard, doctrinal, established, in line, legitimate, official, old-line, pious, proper, punctilious, reactionary, received, recognized, religious, right, rightful, sanctioned, sound, square, standard, straight, straight arrow, traditionalistic, true, well-established |
Antonyms: |
heterodox, unconventional, unorthodox, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | reactionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
Synonyms: |
counterrevolutionary, die-hard, obscurantist, old-line, orthodox, regressive, retrogressive, right, rightist, rigid, standpat, tory, traditional, traditionalistic |
Antonyms: |
liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | right |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative politically |
Synonyms: |
die-hard, old-line, orthodox, reactionary, right wing, traditionalistic |
| Notes: | right means free from error or correct in opinion or judgment; a wright is someone who makes, builds, or repairs something |
Antonyms: |
left |
| Main Entry: | old school |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earliest way of doing things |
Synonyms: |
backward-looking, conforming, conservative, earlier generation, leftovers, old line, old-fashioned, past, traditional, unprogressive |
| Main Entry: | mossbacked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reactionary |
Synonyms: |
counterrevolutionary, die-hard, obscurantist, old-line, orthodox, regressive, retrogressive, right, rightist, rigid, standpat, tory, traditional, traditionalistic, ultraconservative |
| Main Entry: | rightist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
Synonyms: |
Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalist, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread |