Dictionary Entry
liberal
liberal is a 7-letter English word with 15 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies.
- 2adjective
Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver.
- 3adjective
Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water.
- 4adjective
Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.
- 5adjective
Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish; enlarged in spirit; catholic.
- 6adjective
Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious.
- 7adjective
Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party.
- 8noun
One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.
- 9noun
a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
Synonyms
- 10noun
a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
- 11adjective
showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
"a broad political stance"
"generous and broad sympathies"
- 12adjective
tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
- 13adjective
not literal
"a loose interpretation of what she had been told"
"a free translation of the poem"
- 14adjective
given or giving freely
"was a big tipper"
"the bounteous goodness of God"
- 15adjective
having political or social views favoring reform and progress
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