liberal

Meanings

• a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
• a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
• showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
  • "a liberal newspaper"
• having political or social views favoring reform and progress
• tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
• given or giving freely
  • "a liberal backer of the arts"
• not literal

Synonyms

big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, broad, free, freehanded, giving, handsome, large-minded, liberalist, loose, openhanded, progressive, tolerant