Definition of Illiberal

Il`lib´er`al
a.1.Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.
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.


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authoritarian, avaricious, biased, bigot, borne, chauvinist, cheap, close, closed, closefisted, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, doctrinaire, dogmatist, fanatic, grudging, hardfisted, hidebound, insular, jaundiced, jingo, little, little-minded, male chauvinist, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, narrow-hearted, 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


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