conservative
adjective
disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
overconservative
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a word derived from
conservative.
Example Sentences
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The Giants’ 20-9 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday provided multiple examples of Judge’s overconservative, counterproductive decision making.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
One possibility is that Dr. Evans was overconservative back in 1941 when he set the safe "maximum permissible body burden" of radium at one ten-millionth of a gram.
From Time Magazine Archive
Actually, the merger trend is based on one hard economic fact: bankers, overconservative by nature, had fallen behind the economy both in growth and business methods, and they were hastily trying to catch up.
From Time Magazine Archive
But if Dr. Evans was overconservative then, it was a good fault: after the haphazard misuse of radium only a decade earlier, a strong corrective was needed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The texts of the times enumerate between, seven and eight hundred, but the estimate is inaccurate and seems overconservative.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
