SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
ultraconservative
adjective
Strongly committed to preserving established practices or resisting change.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Strongly resistant to change
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Usage distinction
Return to topUltraconservative intensifies commitment to established practices. Reactionary more specifically seeks a return to earlier arrangements rather than only preserving the present.
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See ultraconservative in use
The fictional committee's ultraconservative approach left it reluctant to alter even minor procedures.
An ultraconservative delegate urged restoring hereditary offices and ancestral social ranks that the town had abandoned, giving inherited custom priority over individual choice.
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