Main entry: progressive, liberal, liberalist
Definition: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
Main entry: liberal
Definition: a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
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
Main entry: liberal
Definition: tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
Main entry: liberal, loose, free
Definition: not literal
Usage: a loose interpretation of what she had been told; a free translation of the poem
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
Main entry: liberal
Definition: having political or social views favoring reform and progress