Word Meanings - OPEN-HANDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Generous; liberal; munificent. -- O"pen-hand`ed*ness, n. J. S. Mill.

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• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• LIBERALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
• LIBERALIZATION
  The act of liberalizing.
• MUNIFICENT
  Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor. -- Mu*nif"i*cent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Bounteous; bountiful; liberal; generous.
• GENEROUS
  noble, excellent, magnanimous, fr. genus birth, race: cf. It. 1. Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. The generous and gravest citizens. Shak. 2. Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth;
• LIBERALIST
  A liberal.
• LIBERALIZER
  One who, or that which, liberalizes. Emerson.
• LIBERALISM
  Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.
• LIBERALLY
  In a liberal manner.
• LIBERALITY
  1. The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham. 2. A gift; a gratuity;
• LIBERAL
  1. Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies. " Liberal education." Macaulay. " A liberal tongue." Shak. 2.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• UNGENEROUSLY
  In an ungenerous manner.
• DEGENEROUSLY
  Basely.
• OVERLIBERAL
  Too liberal.
• UNGENEROUS
  Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable. The victor never will impose on Cato Ungenerous terms. Addison.
• ILLIBERALLY
  In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously.
• MULTIGENEROUS
  Having many kinds.
• 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;
• OVERLIBERALLY
  In an overliberal manner.
• ILLIBERALIZE
  To make illiberal.