LIBERAL meaning: Open to new behavior, ideas

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word liberal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

liberal: Merriam-Webster.com
Liberal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
liberal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
liberal: Collins English Dictionary
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LIberal, Liberal, liberal: Wordnik
liberal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Liberal, liberal: Wiktionary
liberal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
liberal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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liberal: Dictionary.com
liberal (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
liberal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Liberal (UK), Liberal (disambiguation), Liberal (politics), Liberal, The Liberal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Liberal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
liberal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Business (3 matching dictionaries)

Liberal: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
Liberal (disambiguation), Liberal (politics), liberal: Legal dictionary
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Liberal (disambiguation), Liberal (politics), liberal: Encyclopedia

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liberal: Political

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

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liberal (n): Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (now rare outside set phrases) Pertaining to those arts and sciences the study of which is considered to provide general knowledge, as opposed to vocational/occupational, technical or mechanical training.
▸ adjective:  Generous; permitting liberty; willing to give unsparingly.
▸ adjective:  Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.
▸ adjective:  Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
▸ adjective:  (politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.
▸ noun:  One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
▸ noun:  (US politics) Someone with progressive or left-wing views; one with a left-wing ideology.
▸ noun:  (politics) A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
▸ noun:  (UK politics) One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets (also called "classical liberal"; compare libertarian).
▸ noun:  (Australian politics) A conservative, especially a liberal conservative.
▸ noun:  (politics) A political party and philosophy
▸ noun:  (politics) A member or supporter of a Liberal Party
▸ noun:  (Canadian politics) A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors
▸ noun:  (British politics) A Liberal Democrat.
▸ noun:  (British politics, dated) A Whig.
▸ noun:  (Australian politics) A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Australia.
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to the Liberal party, its membership, or its platform, policy, or viewpoint.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Spencer County, Indiana, United States.
▸ noun:  A city, the county seat of Seward County, Kansas, United States.
▸ noun:  A small city in Barton County, Missouri, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.

Opposite:

conservative, traditional, orthodox, reactionary, right-wing

Types:

progressive, social democrat, libertarisocialist, green, neoliberal, classical liberal, centrist liberal, more...

Phrases:

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white, moderate, political, classical, modern, true, conservative, american, old, radical, century

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