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unconservative

unconservative

7.0
Supporting political and social change and new ideas
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnkənˈsɜːrvətɪv/
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  • In her speech, she advocated for an unconservative approach to education that embraced innovative technology.

Examples

  • The unconservative reforms proposed by the new leader aimed to modernize the country's economic policies.

  • Many young voters prefer candidates with unconservative views on social issues.

  • Despite winning the nomination of our conservative party, Trump, then, is a deeply unconservative proposition.

    Academic text (2016)

Synonyms

liberal
vsunconservative
983 4.4

Having political views that support social change and people's freedoms

describes the same stance but as opposition to right-leaning views
ultraliberal
vsunconservative
1 7.2

Very supportive of social change and personal freedoms

expresses similar direction but is milder and less extreme
nonconservative
vsunconservative
7.2

Supporting political change and new social policies

is identical in meaning and used as the main descriptor

Antonyms

conservative
∞ 4.6

Does not want big changes and likes traditional values

How Conservative

right-wing
172 4.9
conservative
306 4.4
centrist
24 4.2
unconservative
7.0
progressive
251 4.8
radical
79 6.3

Surface Forms

unconservative positive

Morphology

unconservative = conservative (transparent) = un + conservative

The political sense is a direct negation of 'conservative' (not holding conservative political views) via the productive prefix 'un-'.

Etymology

The word unconservative starts with un- meaning 'not' and the rest is conservative, a word for people who want to 'keep' older social or political ways. So unconservative describes someone who does not support conservative views and prefers change or more liberal ideas.