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liberal
Overview of noun liberal
The noun liberal has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (27) liberal, liberalist, progressive -- (a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties)
2. (1) liberal -- (a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets)
Overview of adj liberal
The adj liberal has 5 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (6) broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant -- (showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions")
2. (4) liberal -- (having political or social views favoring reform and progress)
3. (3) liberal -- (tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition)
4. (3) big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded -- (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")
5. free, loose, liberal -- (not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun liberal
2 senses of liberal
Sense 1
liberal, liberalist, progressive
=> adult, grownup
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
liberal
=> adult, grownup
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun liberal
1 of 2 senses of liberal
Sense 1
liberal, liberalist, progressive
=> armchair liberal
=> latitudinarian
=> neoliberal
=> pluralist
=> Whig
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun liberal
2 senses of liberal
Sense 1
liberal, liberalist, progressive
=> adult, grownup
Sense 2
liberal
=> adult, grownup
Antonyms of noun liberal
1 of 2 senses of liberal
Sense 1
liberal, liberalist, progressive
Antonym of conservative (Sense 1)
=>conservative, conservativist
Member Holonyms of noun liberal
Substance Holonyms of noun liberal
Part Holonyms of noun liberal
Member Meronyms of noun liberal
Substance Meronyms of noun liberal
Part Meronyms of noun liberal
Meronyms of noun liberal
Holonyms of noun liberal
Attributes of noun liberal
Derived Forms of noun liberal
Domain of noun liberal
Domain Terms of noun liberal
Familiarity of noun liberal
liberal used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun liberal
2 senses of liberal
Sense 1
liberal, liberalist, progressive
> adult, grownup
=> brachycephalic
=> caregiver
=> catch, match
=> centrist, middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist
=> character, eccentric, type, case
=> conservative, conservativist
=> dolichocephalic
=> elder, senior
=> ex-spouse
=> host
=> important person, influential person, personage
=> Jack of all trades
=> liberal, liberalist, progressive
=> liberal
=> militarist, warmonger
=> oldster, old person, senior citizen, golden ager
=> pacifist, pacificist, disarmer
=> patrician
=> pledgee
=> pledger
=> professional, professional person
=> sobersides
=> sophisticate, man of the world
=> stay-at-home, homebody
=> stoic, unemotional person
=> thoroughbred
=> woman, adult female
Sense 2
liberal
> adult, grownup
=> brachycephalic
=> caregiver
=> catch, match
=> centrist, middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist
=> character, eccentric, type, case
=> conservative, conservativist
=> dolichocephalic
=> elder, senior
=> ex-spouse
=> host
=> important person, influential person, personage
=> Jack of all trades
=> liberal, liberalist, progressive
=> liberal
=> militarist, warmonger
=> oldster, old person, senior citizen, golden ager
=> pacifist, pacificist, disarmer
=> patrician
=> pledgee
=> pledger
=> professional, professional person
=> sobersides
=> sophisticate, man of the world
=> stay-at-home, homebody
=> stoic, unemotional person
=> thoroughbred
=> woman, adult female
Meronyms of noun liberal
2 senses of liberal
Sense 1
liberal, liberalist, progressive
=> adult, grownup
HAS PART: adult body
HAS PART: pubic hair, bush, crotch hair
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 2
liberal
=> adult, grownup
HAS PART: adult body
HAS PART: pubic hair, bush, crotch hair
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun liberal
Grep of noun liberal
armchair liberal
liberal
liberal arts
liberal party
liberalisation
liberalism
liberalist
liberality
liberalization
liberalness
neoliberal
Grep of verb liberal
liberalise
liberalize
Antonyms of adj liberal
5 senses of liberal
Sense 1
broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant
INDIRECT (VIA broad-minded) -> narrow-minded, narrow
Sense 2
liberal
INDIRECT (VIA right, left) -> center
INDIRECT (VIA left, center) -> right
Sense 3
liberal (vs. conservative)
conservative (vs. liberal)
=> blimpish
=> buttoned-up
=> fusty, standpat(prenominal), unprogressive, nonprogressive
=> hidebound, traditionalist
=> ultraconservative
Sense 4
big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
INDIRECT (VIA generous) -> stingy, ungenerous
Sense 5
free, loose, liberal
INDIRECT (VIA inexact) -> exact
Similarity of adj liberal
5 senses of liberal
Sense 1
broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant
=> broad-minded (vs. narrow-minded)
Sense 2
liberal
=> left (vs. center)(vs. right)
Sense 3
liberal (vs. conservative)
=> civil-libertarian
=> liberalistic
=> neoliberal
=> progressive, reformist, reform-minded
=> socialized, socialised
=> welfarist, welfare-statist
Also See> left#4
Sense 4
big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
=> generous (vs. stingy)
Sense 5
free, loose, liberal
=> inexact (vs. exact)
Pertainyms of adj liberal
Attributes of adj liberal
1 of 5 senses of liberal
Sense 3
liberal (vs. conservative)
=> political orientation, ideology, political theory
Domain of adj liberal
Domain Terms of adj liberal
Familiarity of adj liberal
liberal used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =5)
Grep of adj liberal
illiberal
liberal
liberalistic
neoliberal
Grep of adv liberal
liberally
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