liberal

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹəl/    美 /ˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
  2. Someone with progressive or left-wing views, especially on social and environmental issues. Canadian,Philippine,US
    — And I love Puerto Ricans and Negros As long as they don't move next door. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal.
  3. A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
  4. One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets (also called "classical liberal"; compare libertarian). UK
  5. A conservative, especially a liberal conservative. Australian
形容词 adj.
  1. Generous; permitting liberty; willing to give unsparingly.
    — He was liberal with his compliments.
  2. Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
    — Add a liberal sprinkling of salt.
  3. Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
    — Her parents had liberal ideas about child-rearing.
  4. Unrestrained, licentious. obsolete
    — Myself, my brother, and this grieved count, Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night, Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window; Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain, Confess'd the vile encounters they have had A thousand times in secret.
  5. Pertaining to a type of education the purpose of which is personal development rather than functional learning.; Pertaining to a type of education the purpose of which is to cultivate and develop wise, capable and well-rounded people who are thus free of mental constraint and hindrance.
    — Americans remain enamored with Europe's ability to produce the consequential thought for America. It was the same in nearly every liberal field. Education sought its roots in such Europeans as Froebel, Frobenius, and Rousseau. Political science tried to connect to Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and Otto von Bismarck, for instance. Economics copied the thought of Adam Smith, […]
  6. Pertaining to a type of education the purpose of which is personal development rather than functional learning.; 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; usually found in the phrase "liberal arts".
    — He had a full education studying the liberal arts.
  7. Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical liberalism or "modern liberalism"/progressivism.
    — Endorsing the liberal anti-interventionist credo that the marketplace should act as the "site of verification," the advocates of white lead opposed government intervention for the sake of open economic competition, which they claimed revealed its true value and thus should be the sole determinant: "When the railways were built, the stage coaches disppeared; they died a timely death. If zinc white is truly superior to white lead, it will kill us in the marketplace, but the government should not intervene." These were the words of Expert-Bezançon, in his February 1903 deposition to the parliamentary committee examining the bill for banning lead-based pigments in paint.

词形变化

more liberal comparative most liberal superlative liberals plural

词汇关系

下位词
small-l liberal
衍生词
archliberal boba liberal classical liberal counterliberal counter-liberal hyperliberal latte liberal Liberal liberal arts liberal conservatism liberal conservatives liberal democracy Liberal Democrat liberal education liberal elite liberalese liberal eugenics liberal feminism liberal guilt liberal homophobia liberalish liberalistic liberalitis liberality liberalization liberalize liberally liberalminded liberal-minded liberal-mindedly liberal-mindedness liberalness liberal parties Liberal Party liberalphobia liberal science liberalspeak liberaltarian Liberal Unionist liberalward Liberal Zionism librandu libshit libtard libturd lieberal limousine liberal milliberal NazLib neoclassical liberal nonliberal overliberal palaeoliberal paleoliberal postliberal preliberal protoliberal pseudoliberal scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist semiliberal small l liberal small liberal social liberal superliberal technoliberal ultraliberal unliberal neo-liberal neoliberal economic liberal
相关词
liberalism liberalist liberate liberation libertarian liberty
并列词
moderate conservative progressive libertarian centrist

词源

词源 1
The adjective is from Old French liberal, from Latin līberālis (“befitting a freeman”), from līber (“free”); it is attested since the 14th century. The noun is first attested in the 1800s.
词源 2
The adjective is from Old French liberal, from Latin līberālis (“befitting a freeman”), from līber (“free”); it is attested since the 14th century. The noun is first attested in the 1800s.
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