Dictionaries › English

illiberal

The English word “illiberal” has 5 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Restricting or failing to sufficiently promote individual choice and freedom.
  2. Narrow-minded; bigoted.
  3. Ungenerous, stingy.
  4. Not adhering to either liberalism or neoliberalism.

noun

  1. One opposed to liberal principles.

Etymology

From Middle French illibéral, from Latin illiberalis, equivalent to il- + liberal.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “illiberal” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.