Liberaladjective
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.
âHe had a full education studying the liberal arts.â;
Conservativenoun
A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
Liberaladjective
Generous; willing to give unsparingly.
âHe was liberal with his compliments.â;
Conservativenoun
(politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.
Liberaladjective
Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
âAdd a liberal sprinkling of salt.â;
Conservativenoun
A political conservative.
Liberaladjective
(obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.
Conservativenoun
A fiscal conservative.
Liberaladjective
Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
âHer parents had liberal ideas about child-rearing.â;
Conservativenoun
A social conservative.
Liberaladjective
(politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.
Conservativeadjective
Cautious.
Liberalnoun
One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
Conservativeadjective
Tending to resist change or innovation.
âThe curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.â;
Liberalnoun
(US) Someone left-wing; one with a left-wing ideology.
Conservativeadjective
Based on pessimistic assumptions.
âAt a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.â;
Liberalnoun
A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
Conservativeadjective
Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
Liberalnoun
(UK) One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets also called "classical liberal"; compare libertarian.
Conservativeadjective
Relating to the Conservative Party.
Liberaladjective
Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies.
Conservativeadjective
Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
Liberaladjective
Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver.
âInfinitely good, and of his goodAs liberal and free as infinite.â;
Conservativeadjective
Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
Liberaladjective
Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water.
âHis wealth doth warrant a liberal dower.â;
Conservativeadjective
(Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
Liberaladjective
Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.
Conservativeadjective
(clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
Liberaladjective
Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish; enlarged in spirit; catholic.
Conservativeadjective
(medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
Liberaladjective
Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious.
Conservativeadjective
Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
Liberaladjective
Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party.
âI confess I see nothing liberal in this " order of thoughts," as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it.â;
Conservativeadjective
Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
Liberalnoun
One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.
Conservativeadjective
Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; - contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.
âWe have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.â;
Liberalnoun
a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
Conservativenoun
One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
âThe Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life.â;
Liberalnoun
a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
Conservativenoun
One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; - opposed to revolutionary or radical.
Liberaladjective
showing or characterized by broad-mindedness;
âa broad political stanceâ; âgenerous and broad sympathiesâ; âa liberal newspaperâ; âtolerant of his opponent's opinionsâ;
Conservativenoun
A member of the Conservative party.
Liberaladjective
having political or social views favoring reform and progress
Conservativenoun
a person who has conservative ideas or opinions
Liberaladjective
tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
Conservativeadjective
resistant to change
Liberaladjective
given or giving freely;
âwas a big tipperâ; âthe bounteous goodness of Godâ; âbountiful complimentsâ; âa freehanded hostâ; âa handsome allowanceâ; âSaturday's child is loving and givingâ; âa liberal backer of the artsâ; âa munificent giftâ; âher fond and openhanded grandfatherâ;
Conservativeadjective
opposed to liberal reforms
Liberaladjective
not literal;
âa loose interpretation of what she had been toldâ; âa free translation of the poemâ;
Conservativeadjective
avoiding excess;
âa conservative estimateâ;
Conservativeadjective
unimaginatively conventional;
âa colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of businessâ;
Conservativeadjective
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;
âa bourgeois mentalityâ;