| 单词 | illiberal |
| 释义 | illiberal (once / 7864 pages) adj Someone who's illiberal is close-minded and intolerant. Your illiberal grandfather might constantly complain about "kids today with their long hair and tattoos." An illiberal person tends to have old-fashioned values and opinions and isn't usually interested in considering other perspectives. It's illiberal to dismiss unfamiliar religious beliefs — or the lack of any religious belief — as just plain wrong. The original, 1500s meaning of illiberal was "ungentlemanly," from the Latin word illiberalis, "ungenerous, mean, or unworthy of a freeman." The "narrow-minded" sense of the word is from the mid-1600s. WORD FAMILYilliberal: illiberality, illiberally+/illiberality: illiberalities/liberal: illiberal, liberalise, liberalism, liberality, liberalize, liberally, liberalness, liberals, neoliberal/liberalise: liberalisation, liberalised, liberalising/liberalism: liberalisms, liberalist, liberalistic, neoliberalism/liberalist: liberalists/liberality: liberalities/liberalization: liberalizations/liberalize: liberalization, liberalized, liberalizes, liberalizing/neoliberal: neoliberals USAGE EXAMPLESIt's part of a larger current in the world that I find equally troubling, which is an illiberal current. BBC(Dec 16, 2016) Condemning such an approach as patronising or illiberal is easy. Economist(Dec 09, 2016) In a situation like this, the body you’d expect to provide a necessary check on a corrupt, illiberal president would be the Congress. Salon(Nov 27, 2016) adj narrow-minded about cherished opinions Syn intolerant narrow, narrow-minded lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view |
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