Word Meanings - OVERFREE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Free to excess; too liberal; too familiar. -- O"ver*free"ly, adv.

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• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• 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.
• FAMILIARITY
  1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another
• FAMILIARIZATION
  The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.
• LIBERALIST
  A liberal.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• LIBERALIZER
  One who, or that which, liberalizes. Emerson.
• FAMILIARIZE
  1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self
• FAMILIAR
  1. Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron. 2. Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures. 3. Characterized by, or exhibiting, the
• FAMILIARNESS
  Familiarity.
• 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;
• FAMILIARY
  Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. Milton.
• 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.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• OVERLIBERAL
  Too liberal.
• ILLIBERALLY
  In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously.
• 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.