What are the opposite words for liberal?
The antonyms for the word liberal can be seen as conservative, traditionalist, reactionary, or fundamentalist. While liberalism emphasizes individual freedom and progressive thinking, conservatism emphasizes the preservation of traditional values and social institutions. Traditionalists tend to rely on traditional ways of thinking and are resistant to change. Reactionary individuals seek to reverse or undo any social progress made by liberalism. Fundamentalists, on the other hand, base their beliefs on a strict and literal interpretation of religious texts. These contrasting antonyms highlight the diverging views on social, economic and political issues that arise from different ideological orientations.
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- sectarian
- square
- person
- reactionary
- conservative
- stick-in-the-mud
- intolerant, prejudiced person
- bigot
- unadventurous person
- moderate
- stingy
- benevolent
- small
- low
- little
- narrow
- ample
- authoritarian
- avant-garde
- domineering
- greedy
- meager
- miserly
- narrow-minded
- parochial
- parsimonious
- abundant
- benign
- big
- liberal
- local
- measly
- penny-pinching
- provincial
- skimpy
- slender
- thin
- all
- advanced
- cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo
- desiring excessively
- of a community, restricted to immediate area
- reduced; mediocre
- greedy, stingy
- calm, temperate
- confined, restricted
- biased, intolerant
- narrow-minded, restricted
- countrified; limited
- narrow-minded, exclusive
- tiny in size, quantity
- penny-pinching, averse to spending money
- fine, light, slender
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
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sectarian
- misbeliever,
- true believer,
- true believers,
- revolutionaries,
- mis believer,
- mis believers,
- mis-believer,
- mis-believers,
- misbelievers,
- non conformists,
- non-conformists,
- cliquish,
- factional,
- Non-conforming,
- non-conformist,
- more cliquish,
- more factional,
- more fanatic,
- more schismatic,
- more splinter,
- most cliquish,
- most factional,
- most fanatic,
- most schismatic,
- most splinter,
- non conformist.
- square
- person
-
reactionary
- reactionist,
- royalist,
- royalists,
- counter revolutionaries,
- counter-revolutionaries,
- counterrevolutionaries,
- intransigents,
- obscurantists,
- reactionists,
- standpatters,
- ultra conservative,
- ultra conservatives,
- ultra-conservative,
- ultra-conservatives,
- counterrevolutionary,
- obscurantist,
- regressive,
- old-line,
- oldline,
- counter revolutionary,
- counter-revolutionary,
- more counterrevolutionary,
- more obscurantist,
- more old line,
- more old-line,
- more oldline,
- more regressive,
- more standpat,
- most counterrevolutionary,
- most obscurantist,
- most old line,
- most old-line,
- most oldline,
- most regressive,
- most standpat.
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conservative
- classicist,
- middle of the roader,
- preserver,
- standpat,
- Tories,
- silk stocking,
- Conserver,
- Conventionalist,
- conventionalists,
- conservers,
- classicists,
- preservers,
- bitter-ender,
- bitter ender,
- bitter enders,
- bitter-enders,
- bitterender,
- bitterenders,
- middle of the roaders,
- middle-of-the-roader,
- middle-of-the-roaders,
- moderatist,
- moderatists,
- old liner,
- old liners,
- pre server,
- pre servers,
- pre-server,
- pre-servers,
- rightwinger,
- silk stockings,
- silk-stocking,
- silk-stockings,
- silkstocking,
- silkstockings,
- standpats,
- stick in the mud,
- un progressives,
- un-progressives,
- unprogressives,
- fogyish,
- obstinate,
- reactionary,
- Quieter,
- quietest,
- rightwing,
- in a rut,
- holding to,
- not extreme,
- undaring,
- die hard,
- fuddy duddy,
- in flexible,
- in rut,
- in-flexible,
- more fogyish,
- more fuddy duddy,
- more fuddy-duddy,
- more fuddyduddy,
- more redneck,
- more undaring,
- most fogyish,
- most fuddy duddy,
- most fuddy-duddy,
- most fuddyduddy,
- most redneck,
- most undaring,
- old line,
- right center,
- right of center,
- torier,
- toriest,
- un changeable,
- un changing,
- un creative,
- un daring,
- un imaginative,
- un progressive,
- un-changeable,
- un-changing,
- un-creative,
- un-daring,
- un-imaginative,
- un-progressive,
- white bread.
- stick-in-the-mud
- intolerant, prejudiced person
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bigot
- bigot,
- dogmatist,
- monomaniac,
- persecutor,
- segregationist,
- sexist,
- Puritans,
- segregationists,
- sexists,
- persecutors,
- superpatriot,
- doctrinaires,
- opinionated person,
- dogmatists,
- mono maniac,
- mono maniacs,
- mono-maniac,
- mono-maniacs,
- monomaniacs,
- opinionated people,
- opinionated persons,
- super patriot,
- super patriots,
- super-patriot,
- super-patriots,
- superpatriots.
- unadventurous person
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moderate
- abstinent,
- disciplined,
- fairish,
- piddling,
- not excessive,
- be arable,
- be-arable,
- de liberate,
- de-liberate,
- dis passionate,
- dis-passionate,
- in consequential,
- in different,
- in-consequential,
- in-different,
- inter mediate,
- low key,
- lowkey,
- mid way,
- mid-way,
- more abstinent,
- more disciplined,
- more fairish,
- most abstinent,
- most disciplined,
- most fairish,
- non partisan,
- non-partisan,
- re served,
- re strained,
- re-served,
- re-strained,
- un exceptional,
- un troubled,
- un-exceptional,
- un-troubled.
- stingy
- benevolent
-
small
- bitty,
- mini,
- pint-sized,
- pocket-sized,
- runty,
- shrimp,
- shrimper,
- small-scale,
- Toyer,
- bittier,
- bittiest,
- more mini,
- more pint sized,
- more pint-sized,
- more pocket sized,
- most mini,
- most pint sized,
- most pint-sized,
- most pocket sized,
- most pocket-sized,
- most pocketsized,
- most small scale,
- most small-scale,
- pint sized,
- pocket sized,
- pocketsized,
- runtier,
- runtiest,
- shrimpest,
- small scale,
- smallscale,
- toyest,
- un-pretentious,
- under sized,
- under-sized.
-
low
- cut rate,
- marked down,
- cut-rate,
- cutrate,
- in adequate,
- in expensive,
- in significant,
- in-adequate,
- in-expensive,
- low grade,
- lowgrade,
- more cut,
- more cut rate,
- more cut-rate,
- more slashed,
- more uncostly,
- most cut,
- most cut rate,
- most cutrate,
- most slashed,
- most uncostly,
- sub standard,
- sub-standard,
- un costly,
- un-costly,
- uncostly.
- little
-
narrow
- linear,
- Incapacious,
- de finite,
- de terminate,
- de-finite,
- de-terminate,
- in capacious,
- in-capacious,
- in-exorable,
- more attenuated,
- more circumscribed,
- more compressed,
- more confining,
- more constricted,
- more contracted,
- more incapacious,
- more linear,
- more pent,
- more pinched,
- more taper,
- more tapered,
- most attenuated,
- most circumscribed,
- most compressed,
- most confining,
- most constricted,
- most contracted,
- most incapacious,
- most linear,
- most pent,
- most pinched,
- most taper,
- most tapered,
- pre carious,
- pre-carious,
- straiter,
- straitest.
- ample
- authoritarian
- avant-garde
- domineering
-
greedy
- esurient,
- insatiate,
- niggardly,
- prehensile,
- ravening,
- swinish,
- tight-fisted,
- close fisted,
- in satiable,
- in satiate,
- in temperate,
- in-satiable,
- in-satiate,
- in-temperate,
- more craving,
- more esurient,
- more gobbling,
- more gormandizing,
- more grudging,
- more gulping,
- more guzzling,
- more insatiate,
- more niggardly,
- more ravening,
- more swinish,
- more tight fisted,
- more tight-fisted,
- most craving,
- most esurient,
- most gobbling,
- most gormandizing,
- most grudging,
- most gulping,
- most guzzling,
- most insatiate,
- most niggardly,
- most prehensile,
- most ravening,
- most swinish,
- most tight fisted,
- most tight-fisted,
- pennypinching,
- tight fisted.
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meager
- beanstalk,
- broomstick,
- meager,
- scraggy,
- scrimpy,
- skin and bones,
- scraggiest,
- in considerable,
- in fertile,
- in substantial,
- in-considerable,
- in-fertile,
- in-substantial,
- in-sufficient,
- more beanpole,
- more beanstalk,
- more broomstick,
- more rattleboned,
- more stinted,
- most beanpole,
- most beanstalk,
- most broomstick,
- most rattleboned,
- most stinted,
- rattleboned,
- scraggier,
- scrimper,
- scrimpest,
- scrimpier,
- scrimpiest,
- skimper,
- skimpest,
- too little too late,
- un finished,
- un fruitful,
- un productive,
- un-finished,
- un-fruitful,
- un-productive.
- miserly
- narrow-minded
- parochial
- parsimonious
- abundant
- benign
- big
- liberal
- local
- measly
- penny-pinching
- provincial
- skimpy
- slender
-
thin
- featherweight,
- poler,
- reedy,
- slender,
- sticker,
- twiglike,
- undernourished,
- Stalky,
- reedier,
- more attenuate,
- more shadow,
- more shriveled,
- more twiglike,
- more undernourished,
- most attenuate,
- most shadow,
- most undernourished,
- polest,
- stalkier,
- stalkiest,
- stickest,
- stilter,
- stiltest,
- under weight,
- under-nourished,
- under-weight.
- all
- advanced
- cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo
- desiring excessively
- of a community, restricted to immediate area
-
reduced; mediocre
- low.
- greedy, stingy
- calm, temperate
- confined, restricted
- biased, intolerant
- narrow-minded, restricted
- countrified; limited
- narrow-minded, exclusive
- tiny in size, quantity
- penny-pinching, averse to spending money
-
fine, light, slender
- thin.
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Other relevant words
- conservativist,
- dodo,
- fogy,
- fossil,
- fuddy-duddy,
- mossback,
- right-winger,
- rightist,
- stuffed shirt,
- tory,
- traditionalist,
- Dogmatizer,
- Fud,
- bare,
- barren,
- begrudging,
- center,
- chary,
- conventional,
- costive,
- desirous,
- doctrinal,
- dogmatic,
- envious,
- exact,
- grudging,
- hard,
- hoggish,
- ignoble,
- infertile,
- itchy,
- least,
- mean,
- minimal,
- minimum,
- resentful,
- rigid,
- selfish,
- sterile,
- stodgy,
- strict,
- unfruitful,
- unproductive,
- unreconstructed,
- old fashioned.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
were one back
- Antonyms:
- aid, discourage, dissuade.
