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liberal
noun
1 liberal
A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties.
synonyms: liberalist, progressive.
Dutch: duratief, liberaal
Polish: wolnościowiec
2 liberal
A person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets.
Polish: liberał, liberalista
adjective
1 liberal
Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness:
— A liberal newspaper.
synonyms: broad, large-minded, tolerant.
Roget 639:
sufficient,
enough,
adequate,
up to the mark,
commensurate,
competent,
satisfactory,
valid,
tangible.
measured;
moderate
etc.
(temperate)
953.
full,
etc.
(complete)
52;
ample;
plenty,
plentiful,
plenteous;
plenty as blackberries;
copious,
abundant;
abounding
etc.
v.;
replete,
enough and to spare,
flush;
choke-full,
chock-full;
well-stocked,
well-provided;
liberal;
unstinted,
unstinting;
stintless†;
without stint;
unsparing,
unmeasured;
lavish
etc.
641;
wholesale.
rich;
luxuriant
etc.
(fertile)
168;
affluent
etc.
(wealthy)
803;
wantless†;
big with
etc.
(pregnant)
161.
unexhausted†,
unwasted†;
exhaustless,
inexhaustible.
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Polish: liberalny
2 liberal
Having political or social views favoring reform and progress.
Polish: liberalny
3 liberal
Tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition.
Polish: liberalny
4 liberal
Given or giving freely:
— A liberal backer of the arts.
synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, openhanded.
Roget 816:
liberal,
free,
generous;
charitable
etc.
(beneficent)
906;
hospitable;
bountiful,
bounteous;
handsome;
unsparing,
ungrudging;
unselfish;
open handed,
free handed,
full handed;
open hearted,
large hearted,
free hearted;
munificent,
princely.
overpaid.
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Roget 942:
disinterested;
unselfish;
self-denying,
self-sacrificing,
self-devoted;
generous.
handsome,
liberal,
noble,
broad-minded;
noble-minded,
high-minded;
princely,
great,
high,
elevated,
lofty,
exalted,
spirited,
stoical,
magnanimous;
great-hearted,
large-hearted;
chivalrous,
heroic,
sublime.
unbought,
unbribed†;
uncorrupted
etc.
(upright)
939.
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5 liberal
Moby thesaurus: Gospel side, abounding, abundant, advanced, affluent, all-sufficing, amiable, ample, aplenty, benevolent, big, big person, bighearted, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, broad, broad-gauge person, broad-minded, cantorial side, charitable, chivalrous, copious, cordial, counterclockwise, diffuse, disinterested, dispassionate, ecumenicist, effuse, eleemosynary, elevated, epidemic, exalted, exhaustless, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, fair, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, fat, fertile, flexible, flush, forbearing, free, free lance, free spirit, free trader, freehanded, freehearted, freethinker, freethinking, friendly, full, galore, generous, genial, giving, gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hearty, heroic, high, high-minded, hospitable, humanistic, idealistic, impartial, in plenty, in quantity, independent, indiscriminate, individualist, individualistic, indulgent, inexhaustible, isolationist, knightly, larboard, large, large-scale, largehearted, latitudinarian, lavish, left, left hand, left of center, left wing, left-hand, left-hand side, left-wing, left-winger, left-wingish, leftist, lenient, levorotatory, liberalist, liberalistic, libertarian, libertine, lofty, loose, luxuriant, magnanimous, many, maximal, much, mugwump, munificent, near, near side, neighborly, neutral, nigh, noble, noble-minded, nonpartisan, numerous, on the left, open, open-handed, open-minded, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overflowing, philanthropic, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, port, port tack, portside, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, progressive, progressivist, progressivistic, radical, rampant, receptive, reformer, reformist, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rugged individualist, running over, sinister, sinistral, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular, sinistrogyrate, sinistrorse, stintless, sublime, superabundant, sweeping, teeming, third force, third world, tolerant, unbigoted, ungrudging, unjaundiced, unopinionated, unprejudiced, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, verso, warm, warmhearted, wealthy, welcoming, welfare stater, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widespread, wrong side ... show more.
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