CONSERVATIVE Antonyms

• any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

• radically new or original

• relating to or based on experiment

• relying on observation or experiment

• of the nature of or undergoing an experiment

• unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)

• the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• ahead of the times

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• an advocate of libertarianism

• someone who believes the doctrine of free will

• belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages

• a contemporary person

• a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

• used of a living language; being the current stage in its development

• relating to a recently developed fashion or style

• characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

• ahead of the times

• not conforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of behavior or thought

• someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct

• a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England

• not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion

• ready to entertain new ideas

• not preventive

• granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline

• favoring or promoting progress

• (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

• a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

• favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

• gradually advancing in extent

• (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position

• advancing in severity

• of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root

• especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem

• (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

• an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule

• a person who has radical ideas or opinions

• (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity

• a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram

• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

• (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm

• markedly new or introducing radical change

• arising from or going to the root or source

• a disputant who advocates reform

• favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

• of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn

• relating to or having the nature of a revolution

• advocating or engaged in revolution

• a radical supporter of political or social revolution

• markedly new or introducing radical change

• not conforming to accepted rules or standards

• not conventional or conformist

• not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention

• breaking with convention or tradition

• independent in behavior or thought

• a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible

• a person with unusual powers of foresight

• not practical or realizable; speculative

• To create (blaze) a new trail that others can then follow

• Resembling a trailblazer; innovative or pioneering.