Usually means: Open to new behavior, ideas.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word liberal:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. liberal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. liberal: Merriam-Webster
  3. Liberal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. liberal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. liberal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. liberal: Vocabulary.com
  7. LIberal, Liberal, liberal: Wordnik
  8. liberal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Liberal, liberal: Wiktionary
  10. liberal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. liberal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. liberal: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. liberal: Dictionary.com
  14. liberal (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. liberal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Liberal (UK), Liberal (disambiguation), Liberal (politics), Liberal, The Liberal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Liberal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. liberal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. liberal: Rhymezone
  20. liberal, liberal, liberal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. liberal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. liberal: FreeDictionary.org
  23. liberal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. liberal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. liberal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Liberal: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. Liberal (disambiguation), Liberal (politics), liberal: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Liberal (disambiguation), Liberal (politics), liberal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 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.

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conservative, traditional, orthodox, reactionary, right-wing

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

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liberalistic, neoliberal, reformist, socialized, handsome, generous, welfare, broad-minded, big, giving, more...

Opposite:
conservative, traditional, orthodox, reactionary, right-wing

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

Phrases:
liberal arts, Liberal Party, liberal democracy, liberal education, liberal democratic, Liberal Democrats, liberal democracies, liberal theory, national liberal, Liberal Democrat, liberal parties, more...

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

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