Illiberal

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Illiberal \Il*lib"er*al\, a. [L. illiberalis; pref. il- not +
     liberalis liberal: cf. F. illib['e]ral.]
     1. Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean;
        sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." --Mason.
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     2. Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like;
        ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.
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     3. Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in
        Latin. [R.] --Chesterfield.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  illiberal
       adj : narrow-minded about cherished opinions [syn: {intolerant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "illiberal":
     authoritarian, avaricious, biased, bigot, bigoted, borne,
     chauvinist, cheap, close, closed, closefisted, constricted,
     cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, doctrinaire, dogmatist,
     fanatic, fanatical, grudging, hardfisted, hidebound, insular,
     intolerant, jaundiced, jingo, little, little-minded,
     male chauvinist, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly,
     narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled,
     narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, niggardly, one-sided,
     opinionated, paltry, parochial, partial, partisan, penny-pinching,
     petty, pig, pinchfisted, pinching, prejudiced, provincial,
     purblind, racist, rigid, rigorous, save-all, sexist, shortsighted,
     small, small-minded, stingy, straitlaced, stringent, stuffy,
     superpatriot, tight, tightfisted, ultranationalist, uncatholic,
     uncharitable, unchivalrous, ungenerous, unliberal