Illiberal

[Il*libĀ·er*al]

Someone who's illiberal is close minded and intolerant. Your illiberal grandfather might constantly complain about "kids today with their long hair and tattoos."

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Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.

Adjective S.
narrow-minded about cherished opinions


a.
Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.

a.
Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.

a.
Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin.


Illiberal

Il*lib"er*al , a. [L. illiberalis; pref. il- not + liberalis liberal: cf. F. illib'82ral.] 1. Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." Mason. 2. Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous. 3. Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin. [R.] Chesterfield.

Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.

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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

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