Liberal

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to those arts and sciences whose study was considered "worthy of a free man" (as opposed to servile:, mechanical:); worthy, befitting a gentleman.
 * He had a full education studying the liberal arts.
 * 1) Generous, bountiful.
 * He was liberal with his compliments.
 * 1) Generous in quantity, abundant.
 * Add a liberal sprinkling of salt.
 * 1)  Unrestrained, licentious.
 * 2) * 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, IV.1:
 * A ruffian / Who hath indeed most like a liberall villaine, / Confest the vile encounters they have had.
 * 1) Free from prejudice or narrow-mindedness; open-minded, open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions, conventions etc.; permissive.
 * Her parents had liberal ideas about child-rearing.
 * 1)  Open to political or social changes and reforms in favour of increased freedom or democracy.

Derived terms

 * liberal arts
 * Liberal
 * Liberal Democrat
 * Liberal Party
 * small-l liberal

Related terms

 * liberalism
 * liberalist
 * liberate
 * liberation
 * libertarian
 * liberty

Noun

 * 1) One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia on Liberalism for a description of the various and diverging trends of liberalism).
 * 2) A supporter of any of the particular liberal parties.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 One on the left-wing of the American political spectrum.  Sometimes used pejoratively in political campaigns.
 * 4)  A person who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, individual gun rights, laissez-faire markets, and the gold standard.

Adverbs for Liberal
naturally; habitually; generally; always; extremely; charitably; considerately; lavishly; thoughtfully; ostentatiously; grudgingly; calculatingly; carelessly;   unwarrantably; improvidently;  moderately;   bountifully; generously; munificently; handsomely; unwisely; unselfishly; thoroughly; unfailingly; dependably.

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

Etymology
From liberal: <  liberalis: < liber:.

Adjective

 * Dutch: vrijzinnig
 * Finnish: avokätinen
 * French:


 * Russian: обильный, щедрый
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch: liberaal
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: φιλελεύθερος, φιλελεύθερη,  φιλελεύθερο,  φιλελεύθεροι


 * Romanian: liberal, liberală
 * Russian: либеральный
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch: open, liberaal
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * Romanian: liberal
 * Russian: либеральный
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch: libertaire
 * French: de gauche
 * Greek: φιλελευθεροκεντρώος, φιλελευθεροκεντρώα,  φιλελευθεροκεντρώο,  φιλελευθεροκεντρώοι


 * Polish: liberalny
 * Romanian: liberal
 * Russian: либеральный
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Yiddish: ליבעראל


 * : liberala
 * : liberaalne
 * : libéral, libérale
 * : liberal
 * : liberal, bebas
 * : liberale


 * : リベラル (riberaru), 自由 (じゆう, jiyū)
 * : 자유 (jayu)
 * : liberal liberală
 * : liberal

Noun

 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Russian: либерал
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish: liberaalisen puolueen kannattaja
 * French:
 * Greek: Φιλελεύθερος, Φιλελεύθερη,  Φιλελεύθερο,  Φιλελεύθεροι


 * Russian: либерал
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Greek: φιλελεύθερος, φιλελεύθερη,  φιλελεύθερο,  φιλελεύθεροι


 * Scottish Gaelic:

Anagrams

 * Braille

Adjective

 * 1) liberal

Adjective

 * 1) liberal

Noun

 * 1) a liberal