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[syn: free-thinking, latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Freethinking \Free"think`ing\, n.
Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. --Berkeley.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
free-thinking
adj 1: unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in
religion) [syn: free-thinking, latitudinarian,
undogmatic, undogmatical]
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