Difference between Buttoned-down and Conservative

Buttoned-down

Part of speech: adjective

Definition:

Conservative

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.A fiscal conservativeA political conservativeA social conservative.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Tending to resist change.Based on pessimistic assumptions.Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.Relating to the Republican party, regardless of its conservatism.Relating to the Conservative party.Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

Example sentence: God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.