LIBERAL


Meaning of LIBERAL in English

I.

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ leading

▪ bourgeois , middle-class

▪ classical , old-fashioned , traditional

▪ radical

▪ market

▪ economic , political , religious , social

▪ white

▪ bleeding-heart

▪ limousine (= a rich person who expresses concern for poor people, but does nothing to help them) ( AmE )

II.

adj.

1 respecting other opinions

VERBS

▪ be

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

His attitudes are fairly ~.

▪ remarkably

▪ relatively

▪ socially

2 in politics

VERBS

▪ be

ADVERB

▪ comparatively , relatively

comparatively ~ in trade matters

▪ broadly , essentially

a broadly ~ set of policies

▪ politically

PREPOSITION

▪ on

He is relatively ~ on social issues.

3 generous

VERBS

▪ be

▪ become

ADVERB

▪ fairly , very

Add a fairly ~ amount of olive oil to the pasta.

PREPOSITION

▪ with

She's very ~ with her advice!

Liberal is used with these nouns: ↑ agenda , ↑ art , ↑ attitude , ↑ bias , ↑ capitalism , ↑ Catholicism , ↑ cause , ↑ Christian , ↑ coalition , ↑ commentator , ↑ conception , ↑ Congressman, Congresswoman , ↑ consensus , ↑ democracy , ↑ economics , ↑ economist , ↑ economy , ↑ education , ↑ elite , ↑ establishment , ↑ faction , ↑ feminism , ↑ feminist , ↑ guilt , ↑ hand , ↑ ideal , ↑ ideology , ↑ interpretation , ↑ judge , ↑ law , ↑ media , ↑ nationalist , ↑ newspaper , ↑ orthodoxy , ↑ party , ↑ philosophy , ↑ point of view , ↑ politician , ↑ politics , ↑ press , ↑ reform , ↑ regime , ↑ scholar , ↑ senator , ↑ slant , ↑ socialist , ↑ society , ↑ support , ↑ theology , ↑ thinker , ↑ thought , ↑ tradition , ↑ use , ↑ value , ↑ view , ↑ viewpoint , ↑ wing

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