Word Meanings - ILLIBERAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." Mason. 2. Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous. 3. Not well authorized or elegant;

Additional info about word: ILLIBERAL

1. Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." Mason. 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. Chesterfield.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ILLIBERAL)

• Beggarly
• Miserable
• poor
• stinted
• wretched
• niggardly
• stingy
• scant
• illiberal
• Churlish
• Illiberal
• inhospitable
• unsociable
• unneighborly
• Little
• Small
• tiny
• pigmy
• diminutive
• short
• brief
• scanty
• unimportant
• insignificant
• slight
• weak
• inconsiderable
• trivial
• mean
• petty
• paltry
• dirty
• shabby
• dwarf
• Selfish
• Egotistical
• self-minded
• self-indulgent
• self-worshipful
• worldly
• ungenerous
• narrowminded
• mercenary
• greedy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ILLIBERAL)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to ILLIBERAL)

• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• UNGENEROUSLY
  In an ungenerous manner.
• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• SCANTLING
  Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• CORUSCANT
  Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.