Illiberal
[ɪ'lɪb(ə)r(ə)l] or [ɪ'lɪbərəl]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Parsimonious, stingy, miserly, niggardly, penurious, ungenerous, sordid, covetous, mean, selfish, close, close-fisted.[2]. Uncharitable, selfish, narrow, self-seeking, narrow-minded.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LIBERAL]
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Definition
adj. niggardly: mean narrow in opinion.—v.t. Illib′eralise.—n. Illiberal′ity.—adv. Illib′erally.
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Examples
- Upon this history, therefore, mechanical and illiberal as it may seem (all fineness and daintiness set aside), the greatest diligence must be bestowed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Their tendency is gross and illiberal; and if their construction could ever be deemed clever, time has long ago destroyed all its ingenuity. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross. Jane Austen. Emma.
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