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adj
noun
- Initialism of progressive contextualization.
- Initialism of professional corporation.
- Initialism of privy council.
- Initialism of press conference.
- (computing) Initialism of program counter.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polycarbonate.
- Initialism of political correctness.
- Initialism of protective custody.
- Initialism of Probate Court.
- (gambling) Abbreviation of percentage.
- Initialism of personal computer.
- (US) Initialism of probable cause.
- (anatomy) Initialism of posterior commissure.
- Initialism of patrol cutter.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of propylene carbonate.
- (South Korean idol fandom) Initialism of photocard.
- Initialism of patrol, coastal, a coastal patrol boat.
- Initialism of photocopy.
- (gaming) Initialism of player character.
- (film) Initialism of Production Code.
- (Canadian politics, by extension) A member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of previous conviction.
- Initialism of parsec.
- (anatomy) Initialism of pubococcygeus muscle.
- Initialism of patrol craft.
- Initialism of public convenience.
- Initialism of private chat.
- (bingo) forty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)
- Initialism of privy councillor and postnominal.
- Initialism of personnel carrier.
- A personal computer, especially one similar to an IBM PC that runs Microsoft Windows (or, originally, DOS), usually as opposed to (say) an Apple Mac.
- (medicine) Initialism of presenting complaint.
- a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
name
- (Canada, politics) Initialism of Progressive Canadian Party.
- Initialism of Phrozen Crew.
- Initialism of Penn Central.
- (US) Initialism of Presbyterian Church.
- (US, navy) Initialism of Coastal Patrol.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Plaid Cymru.
- Initialism of Proto-Celtic.
- (Philippines, law enforcement, historical) Initialism of Philippine Constabulary.
verb
adj
noun
verb
name
noun
- (aviation) Abbreviation of propulsion controlled aircraft (system/unit), an aircraft with a control system with two or more engines arrayed abreast, allowing descent, ascent, turns by adjusting the throttle control to the engines (sometimes used attributively).
- (medicine) Abbreviation of patient-controlled analgesia; palliator.
- (statistics) Abbreviation of principal components analysis.
- (anatomy) Initialism of posterior cerebral artery.
- (electronics) Initialism of printed circuit assembly.
adj
- (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
- (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
- (politics) Liberal.
- Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
- Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
- Advancing in severity.
- (grammar) Continuous.
- Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
- (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
- advancing in severity
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
- gradually advancing in extent
- favoring or promoting progress
- (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
noun
- One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
- (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
- A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
- Clipping of progressive dinner
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
- a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
adj
- (by extension, politics, slang, often derogatory) Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.
- (by extension, politics, slang, derogatory) Promoting cancel culture, identitarianism, pontification, victim mentality, or virtue signalling.
- (African-American Vernacular or slang) Awake: conscious and not asleep.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, slang) Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.
noun
verb
adj
- Initialism of left.
- (linguistics) Initialism of low (variety of a language with limited prestige and official acceptance).
- (slang) Bad, subpar, of inferior quality (abbreviation of loser). (Compare noun etymology 2 sense 1 and etymology 2 sense 2.)
- (usually clothing) Initialism of large (of the manufactured size).
noun
- Initialism of left.
- (Internet slang, by extension) A fail.
- Initialism of Latin.
- (usually clothing) Initialism of large (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
- (countable, slang) Abbreviation of loss.
- Abbreviation of low pressure front.
- (US, politics) Abbreviation of Libertarian.
- Alternative form of el (“elevated train”).
- (textiles) Initialism of ligne.
- (sports) Abbreviation of losses (statistic).
- Initialism of lobby.
- (slang) Two cigarette papers laid perpendicularly on each other when making a joint.
- Initialism of lira.
- Initialism of lesbian.
- the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
character
num
noun
adj
name
adv
adj
- (geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
- (politics) Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
- Anticlockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
- Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
- intended for the left hand
- being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north
- not used up
- of or belonging to the political or intellectual left
noun
- (politics) The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.
- (boxing) A punch delivered with the left fist.
- The left hand or fist.
- The left side or direction.
- (surfing) A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
- location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
- the hand that is on the left side of the body
- the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left
- those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare
- a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east
verb
adj
noun
noun
- (figurative, informal, attributive) Affluent leftism.
- A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
- (by extension) A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).
- A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity.
- strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk
adj
- having political or social views favoring reform and progress
- tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
- given or giving freely
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- not literal
- Generous; permitting liberty; willing to give unsparingly.
- (politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.
- Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
- Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
- (now rare outside set phrases) 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.
noun
- 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
- (politics) A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
- One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
- (US politics, Canadian politics, Philippine politics) Someone with progressive or left-wing views, especially on social and environmental issues.
- (Australian politics) A conservative, especially a liberal conservative.
- (UK politics) One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets (also called "classical liberal"; compare libertarian).
noun
- (historical, 19th-century Britain, politics) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
- (linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
- (organic chemistry) A free radical.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
- (algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or √, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xⁿ ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
- A person with radical opinions.
- (number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
- (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
- (historical, early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
- (linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
- (algebra, ring theory, of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
- (linguistics) In Celtic languages, the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.
- a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
- (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
- a person who has radical ideas or opinions
adj
- (mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
- Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
- Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
- (slang) Excellent; awesome.
- (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
- (lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
- Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
- (phonology, phonetics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
- (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
- of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
- (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
- markedly new or introducing radical change
- especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
- arising from or going to the root or source
adj
noun
noun
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
adj
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- Initialism of progressive contextualization.
- Initialism of professional corporation.
- Initialism of privy council.
- Initialism of press conference.
- (computing) Initialism of program counter.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polycarbonate.
- Initialism of political correctness.
- Initialism of protective custody.
- Initialism of Probate Court.
- (gambling) Abbreviation of percentage.
- Initialism of personal computer.
- (US) Initialism of probable cause.
- (anatomy) Initialism of posterior commissure.
- Initialism of patrol cutter.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of propylene carbonate.
- (South Korean idol fandom) Initialism of photocard.
- Initialism of patrol, coastal, a coastal patrol boat.
- Initialism of photocopy.
- (gaming) Initialism of player character.
- (film) Initialism of Production Code.
- (Canadian politics, by extension) A member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of previous conviction.
- Initialism of parsec.
- (anatomy) Initialism of pubococcygeus muscle.
- Initialism of patrol craft.
- Initialism of public convenience.
- Initialism of private chat.
- (bingo) forty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)
- Initialism of privy councillor and postnominal.
- Initialism of personnel carrier.
- A personal computer, especially one similar to an IBM PC that runs Microsoft Windows (or, originally, DOS), usually as opposed to (say) an Apple Mac.
- (medicine) Initialism of presenting complaint.
- a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
name
- (Canada, politics) Initialism of Progressive Canadian Party.
- Initialism of Phrozen Crew.
- Initialism of Penn Central.
- (US) Initialism of Presbyterian Church.
- (US, navy) Initialism of Coastal Patrol.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Plaid Cymru.
- Initialism of Proto-Celtic.
- (Philippines, law enforcement, historical) Initialism of Philippine Constabulary.
verb
adj
- Initialism of left.
- (linguistics) Initialism of low (variety of a language with limited prestige and official acceptance).
- (slang) Bad, subpar, of inferior quality (abbreviation of loser). (Compare noun etymology 2 sense 1 and etymology 2 sense 2.)
- (usually clothing) Initialism of large (of the manufactured size).
noun
- Initialism of left.
- (Internet slang, by extension) A fail.
- Initialism of Latin.
- (usually clothing) Initialism of large (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
- (countable, slang) Abbreviation of loss.
- Abbreviation of low pressure front.
- (US, politics) Abbreviation of Libertarian.
- Alternative form of el (“elevated train”).
- (textiles) Initialism of ligne.
- (sports) Abbreviation of losses (statistic).
- Initialism of lobby.
- (slang) Two cigarette papers laid perpendicularly on each other when making a joint.
- Initialism of lira.
- Initialism of lesbian.
- the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
character
num
adj
- (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
- (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
- (politics) Liberal.
- Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
- Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
- Advancing in severity.
- (grammar) Continuous.
- Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
- (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
- advancing in severity
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
- gradually advancing in extent
- favoring or promoting progress
- (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
noun
- One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
- (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
- A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
- Clipping of progressive dinner
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
- a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
noun
adj
name
noun
- (figurative, informal, attributive) Affluent leftism.
- A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
- (by extension) A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).
- A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity.
- strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk
adj
- (by extension, politics, slang, often derogatory) Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.
- (by extension, politics, slang, derogatory) Promoting cancel culture, identitarianism, pontification, victim mentality, or virtue signalling.
- (African-American Vernacular or slang) Awake: conscious and not asleep.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, slang) Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.
noun
verb
noun
- (historical, 19th-century Britain, politics) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
- (linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
- (organic chemistry) A free radical.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
- (algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or √, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xⁿ ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
- A person with radical opinions.
- (number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
- (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
- (historical, early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
- (linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
- (algebra, ring theory, of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
- (linguistics) In Celtic languages, the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.
- a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
- (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
- a person who has radical ideas or opinions
adj
- (mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
- Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
- Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
- (slang) Excellent; awesome.
- (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
- (lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
- Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
- (phonology, phonetics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
- (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
- of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
- (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
- markedly new or introducing radical change
- especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
- arising from or going to the root or source
noun
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
adj
adv
adj
- (geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
- (politics) Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
- Anticlockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
- Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
- intended for the left hand
- being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north
- not used up
- of or belonging to the political or intellectual left
noun
- (politics) The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.
- (boxing) A punch delivered with the left fist.
- The left hand or fist.
- The left side or direction.
- (surfing) A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
- location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
- the hand that is on the left side of the body
- the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left
- those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare
- a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east
verb
adj
noun
- Initialism of progressive contextualization.
- Initialism of professional corporation.
- Initialism of privy council.
- Initialism of press conference.
- (computing) Initialism of program counter.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polycarbonate.
- Initialism of political correctness.
- Initialism of protective custody.
- Initialism of Probate Court.
- (gambling) Abbreviation of percentage.
- Initialism of personal computer.
- (US) Initialism of probable cause.
- (anatomy) Initialism of posterior commissure.
- Initialism of patrol cutter.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of propylene carbonate.
- (South Korean idol fandom) Initialism of photocard.
- Initialism of patrol, coastal, a coastal patrol boat.
- Initialism of photocopy.
- (gaming) Initialism of player character.
- (film) Initialism of Production Code.
- (Canadian politics, by extension) A member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of previous conviction.
- Initialism of parsec.
- (anatomy) Initialism of pubococcygeus muscle.
- Initialism of patrol craft.
- Initialism of public convenience.
- Initialism of private chat.
- (bingo) forty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)
- Initialism of privy councillor and postnominal.
- Initialism of personnel carrier.
- A personal computer, especially one similar to an IBM PC that runs Microsoft Windows (or, originally, DOS), usually as opposed to (say) an Apple Mac.
- (medicine) Initialism of presenting complaint.
- a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
name
- (Canada, politics) Initialism of Progressive Canadian Party.
- Initialism of Phrozen Crew.
- Initialism of Penn Central.
- (US) Initialism of Presbyterian Church.
- (US, navy) Initialism of Coastal Patrol.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Plaid Cymru.
- Initialism of Proto-Celtic.
- (Philippines, law enforcement, historical) Initialism of Philippine Constabulary.
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
- (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
- (politics) Liberal.
- Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
- Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
- Advancing in severity.
- (grammar) Continuous.
- Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
- (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
- advancing in severity
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
- gradually advancing in extent
- favoring or promoting progress
- (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
noun
- One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
- (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
- A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
- Clipping of progressive dinner
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
- a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
adj
- (by extension, politics, slang, often derogatory) Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.
- (by extension, politics, slang, derogatory) Promoting cancel culture, identitarianism, pontification, victim mentality, or virtue signalling.
- (African-American Vernacular or slang) Awake: conscious and not asleep.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, slang) Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.
noun
verb
adj
- Initialism of left.
- (linguistics) Initialism of low (variety of a language with limited prestige and official acceptance).
- (slang) Bad, subpar, of inferior quality (abbreviation of loser). (Compare noun etymology 2 sense 1 and etymology 2 sense 2.)
- (usually clothing) Initialism of large (of the manufactured size).
noun
- Initialism of left.
- (Internet slang, by extension) A fail.
- Initialism of Latin.
- (usually clothing) Initialism of large (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
- (countable, slang) Abbreviation of loss.
- Abbreviation of low pressure front.
- (US, politics) Abbreviation of Libertarian.
- Alternative form of el (“elevated train”).
- (textiles) Initialism of ligne.
- (sports) Abbreviation of losses (statistic).
- Initialism of lobby.
- (slang) Two cigarette papers laid perpendicularly on each other when making a joint.
- Initialism of lira.
- Initialism of lesbian.
- the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
character
num
adj
noun
adj
- having political or social views favoring reform and progress
- tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
- given or giving freely
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- not literal
- Generous; permitting liberty; willing to give unsparingly.
- (politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.
- Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
- Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
- (now rare outside set phrases) 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.
noun
- 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
- (politics) A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
- One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
- (US politics, Canadian politics, Philippine politics) Someone with progressive or left-wing views, especially on social and environmental issues.
- (Australian politics) A conservative, especially a liberal conservative.
- (UK politics) One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets (also called "classical liberal"; compare libertarian).