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anticonservative

anticonservative adjective: opposing conservative attitudes or politics.

Adjective

anticonservative (comparative more anticonservative, superlative most anticonservative)

  1. Opposing conservative attitudes or politics.
    • Thus, approximately one-third of the respondents with anticonservative views thought conservatives had too much power in national religious agencies, government, and the media[…]1989, Robert Wuthnow, The Struggle for America's Soul, page 85

Noun

anticonservative (plural anticonservatives)

  1. One who opposes conservative attitudes or politics.

Forms of anticonservative

Adjective
comparativemore anticonservative
superlativemost anticonservative
Noun
pluralanticonservatives

Origin of anticonservative

From anti- + conservative.

Words formed from anticonservative

Questions about anticonservative

What does anticonservative mean?
Anticonservative means opposing conservative attitudes or politics.
What part of speech is anticonservative?
Anticonservative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near anticonservative in the dictionary

  1. anticonscriptionists
  2. anticonsensus
  3. anticonservation
  4. anticonservationist
  5. anticonservationists
  6. anticonservative
  7. anticonservativeness
  8. anticonservatives
  9. anticonsolidation
  10. anticonspiracy
  11. anticonspiratorial

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