liberal

  • (s) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
    • a broad political stance
    • generous and broad sympathies
    • a liberal newspaper
    • tolerant of his opponent's opinions
    large-minded, tolerant, broad,
  • (s) having political or social views favoring reform and progress
  • (a) tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
  • (s) given or giving freely
    • was a big tipper
    • the bounteous goodness of God
    • bountiful compliments
    • a freehanded host
    • a handsome allowance
    • Saturday's child is loving and giving
    • a liberal backer of the arts
    • a munificent gift
    • her fond and openhanded grandfather
    bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, giving, openhanded, freehanded, handsome, big,
  • (s) not literal
    • a loose interpretation of what she had been told
    • a free translation of the poem
    loose, free,

Nouns

  • (n) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties liberalist, progressive,
  • (n) a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

Synonyms

large-minded tolerant broad liberalist progressive bighearted bounteous bountiful giving openhanded freehanded handsome big loose free

Antonyms

conservative conservativist

See also

left

Words of close approximity

Liberia liberty
liberal arts Liberal Democrat Party liberalisation liberalise liberalism liberalist liberalistic liberality liberalization liberalize liberally liberalness Liberal Party