Main entry: progressive, liberal, liberalist
Definition: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
Antonyms: conservative, conservativist
Definition: a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
Main entry: liberal
Definition: tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
Antonyms: conservative
Definition: resistant to change
Antonyms: regressive
Definition: opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state
Antonyms: regressive
Definition: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases
Main entry: liberal
Definition: having political or social views favoring reform and progress
Antonyms: right
Definition: location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
Antonyms: right
Definition: of or belonging to the political or intellectual right
Antonyms: center
Definition: of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually
Antonyms: right
Definition: being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north
Antonyms: right
Definition: toward or on the right; also used figuratively
Main entry: big, bighearted, freehanded, openhanded, bounteous, bountiful, giving, handsome, liberal
Definition: given or giving freely
Usage: 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
Antonyms: ungenerous, stingy
Definition: unwilling to spend
Antonyms: ungenerous, meanspirited
Definition: lacking in magnanimity
Main entry: broad, liberal, large-minded, tolerant
Definition: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
Usage: a broad political stance; generous and broad sympathies; a liberal newspaper; tolerant of his opponent's opinions
Antonyms: narrow, narrow-minded
Definition: lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view
Main entry: liberal, loose, free
Definition: not literal
Usage: a loose interpretation of what she had been told; a free translation of the poem
Antonyms: exact
Definition: marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact