Definition of Conservatively

1. Adverb. In a conservative manner. "We estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000."

Exact synonyms: Cautiously, Guardedly
Partainyms: Guarded

Definition of Conservatively

1. Adverb. In a conservative manner ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conservatively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conservatively

conservation of natural resources
conservation of parity
conservational
conservationally
conservationism
conservationist
conservationists
conservations
conservatism
conservatisms
conservative
conservative model
conservative replication
conservative substitution
conservative treatment
conservatively
conservativeness
conservatives
conservativism
conservativisms
conservativist
conservatize
conservatized
conservatizes
conservatizing
conservatoire
conservatoires
conservator
conservator-ward relation
conservatorial

Literary usage of Conservatively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biennial report by Minnesota Tax Commission, Washington (State). Board of State Land Commissioners, Washington (State), Board of State Land Commissioners (1910)
"Power of Commission to Order Reassessments Conservatively Exercised The ... very conservatively, and only when it appeared that injustice had been done to a ..."

2. A Journal of the Great War by Charles Gates Dawes (1921)
"the activities of this Board quietly, conservatively, but firmly commenced, would probably soon effect most important results tending to the eventual ..."

3. Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1 at Five-day and by Bryant Tuckerman (1990)
"These lower limits were chosen conservatively, in that the sums of the magnitudes of all neglected terms, of longitude and of radius vector of Earth and of ..."

4. Testimony [and Report] Taken Before the Select Committee of the Senate of by Thomas J. Hillery (1906)
""I believe it sufficient to report that the company's statement, as rendered to the department for the date of December 31st, 1903, is conservatively ..."

5. The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables by David Bogue (1852)
"starting-point for great changes, and, like many other great men, felt called upon to employ merely conservatively, powers which had been conferred upon him ..."

6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"Eight were treated by resection with two deaths, a mortality of 25 per cent. Sixty were treated conservatively with 17 deaths, being a mortality ..."

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