- liberal
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} nounADJECTIVE▪ 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){{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}adj.1 respecting other opinionsVERBS▪ beADVERB▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.▪
His attitudes are fairly liberal.
▪ remarkably▪ relatively▪ socially2 in politicsVERBS▪ beADVERB▪ comparatively, relatively▪comparatively liberal in trade matters
▪ broadly, essentially▪a broadly liberal set of policies
▪ politicallyPREPOSITION▪ on▪He is relatively liberal on social issues.
3 generousVERBS▪ be▪ becomeADVERB▪ fairly, very▪Add a fairly liberal amount of olive oil to the pasta.
PREPOSITION▪ with▪She's very liberal 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
Collocations dictionary. 2013.