Hyphenation of conservative

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word conservative ? This word can be hyphenated and contains 5 syllables as shown below.

con-ser-v-a-tive

Definitions of conservative :

1.	A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
2.	A member of a Conservative Party
3.	Resistant to change
4.	Having social or political views favoring conservatism
5.	Avoiding excess A conservative estimate
6.	Unimaginatively conventional A colorful character in the buttoned-down
7.	Dull-grey world of business- Newsweek
8.	Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class A bourgeois mentality

Synonyms of conservative :

adj	conservative, blimpish, buttoned-up, fusty, standpat, unprogressive, nonprogressive, hidebound, traditionalist, ultraconservative, orthodox, right
adj	right
adj	cautious, moderate
adj	button-down, buttoned-down, conventional
adj	bourgeois, materialistic, middle-class
noun	conservativist, adult, grownup

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.