For once, I have very little to add to the thrust of this message. I enclose excerpts and links to Roget’s Thesaurus page for the complete force of this essay.
LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE, WITH WHICH DEFINITIONS WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE AFFILIATED?
DIRECTLY FROM ROGET’S THESAURUS PAGES:
http://thesaurus.com/browse/liberal
Main Entry: liberal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: progressive
Synonyms: advanced, avant-garde, broad, broad-minded,catholic, enlightened, flexible, free, general,high-minded, humanistic, humanitarian,indulgent, intelligent, interested, latitudinarian,left, lenient, libertarian, loose, magnanimous,permissive, radical, rational, reasonable,receiving, receptive, reformist, tolerant,unbiased, unbigoted, unconventional,understanding, unorthodox, unprejudiced
Antonyms: conservative, narrow, narrow-minded
Main Entry: liberal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: giving, generous
Synonyms: altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, bighearted,bounteous, bountiful, casual, charitable,eleemosynary, exuberant, free, free-and-easy,handsome, kind, lavish, loose, munificent,openhanded, openhearted, philanthropic,princely, prodigal, profuse, soft-touch, unselfish,unsparing, unstinging
Antonyms: economical, greedy, mean, thrifty, ungenerous
http://thesaurus.com/browse/conservative
Main Entry: conservative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cautious, moderate, tending to preserve thestatus quo
Synonyms: Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled,conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish,fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound,holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard,old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck,right, right of center, right-wing, sober, stable,steady, timid, traditional, traditionalistic,unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring,unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread
Antonyms: exaggerated, incautious, left-wing, liberal,progressive, radical
Main Entry: conservative
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is cautious, moderate; an opponentof change
Synonyms: Tory, bitter-ender, classicist, conserver,conventionalist, diehard, hard hat, middle-of-the-roader, moderate, moderatist, obstructionist,old guard, old liner, preserver, reactionary,redneck, right, right-winger, rightist, silk-stocking, standpat, stick-in-the-mud,traditionalist, unprogressive
Antonyms: left-winger, liberal, progressive, radical
