archconservative
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8.4
- adjective
- /ˌɑrkˌkənˈsɜrvəˌtɪv/
:
ultraconservador
- An archconservative approach to education often resists any efforts to update the curriculum.
Examples
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Many voters were attracted to the archconservative candidate's promises to uphold traditional values.
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But to an archconservative 74-year-old woman?
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Fun fact: the skeleton of the court-packing scheme had actually come from archconservative Justice McReynolds.
Blog text (3) -
In 1987, as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Biden led the successful Democratic effort to defeat Ronald Reagan's archconservative Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.
Blog text (14) -
I have a friend who is a Catholic priest (a gay priest who has no qualms about sleeping with men, so he's hardly the typical archconservative Catholic, but anyway).
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The hardliner neo-conservative forces received support from the Revolutionary Guard, the archconservative Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, and Iran's leader.
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The ascendancy of archconservative and anticommunist Senator Jesse Helms to the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the dramatic growth of the U.S. economy in 1995, and the fact that the Republicans did not make trade a primary electoral issue led to the rediscovery of geopolitics as the primary U.S. agenda in East Asia.
Academic text (2000) -
The senator's archconservative stance on healthcare reform has drawn sharp criticism from his opponents.
Synonyms
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4.6
Does not want big changes and likes traditional values
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7.9
Very unwilling to accept change or new ideas
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6.5
Holding strongly to old customs and resisting change
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7.2
Beliefs and ways that people in a family or group keep for a long time
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9.5
Still holding old beliefs and unwilling to change
Very old-fashioned and against change
Opposed to social or political change and wanting to return to older ways
A political movement that wants older social and government rules instead of modern liberal ideas
Opposed to big, sudden political change
Opposing slow change in society and its rules
Not supporting liberal political ideas or policies
Against political ideas that support personal freedom and equal rights
Not willing to accept new ideas and slow to change
Supporting existing institutions and the current social or political order
Antonyms
How Conservative
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8.4
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4.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
archconservative = conservative (transparent) = arch + conservative
The prefix 'arch-' adds an emphatic 'extremely' meaning to 'conservative', so the sense is directly derived and easy to infer.
Etymology
Archconservative comes from the part arch- meaning 'chief' or 'very', as in archbishop or archenemy, and conservative meaning 'wanting to keep things the same'. So, it describes a person or idea that is extremely opposed to change.