ULTRACONSERVATIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism

Synonyms:

extreme right-winger; reactionary; ultraconservative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ultraconservative" is a kind of...):

conservative; conservativist (a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ultraconservative"):

Bourbon (a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South))

Blimp; Colonel Blimp (any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low))

Derivation:

ultraconservative (extremely conservative)

Meaning:

Extremely conservative

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

conservative (resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion)

Derivation:

ultraconservative (an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism)