free-thinking

4 definitions found

free-thinking - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Freethinking \Free"think`ing\, n.
     Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. --Berkeley.
     [1913 Webster]

  free-thinking \free-thinking\ adj.
     inclined to forms one's own opinions rather than depend upon
     authority, especially about social and religious issues;
     exhibiting boldness of speculation; skeptical of authority.
  
     Syn: latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical.
          [WordNet 1.5 + 1913 Webster]

free-thinking - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  free-thinking
      adj 1: unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in
             religion) [syn: free-thinking, latitudinarian,
             undogmatic, undogmatical]

free-thinking - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "freethinking":
     broad-minded, broad-mindedness, catholicity, free thought,
     humanism, latitudinarian, latitudinarianism, liberal, liberalism,
     liberalistic, liberality, liberalness, liberation, libertarian,
     libertarianism, libertine, libertinism, open-minded,
     open-mindedness, secular humanism, tolerance, tolerant, toleration,
     unbigoted, unbigotedness