Usually means: Opposed to liberal principles, authoritarian.
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  1. illiberal: Merriam-Webster
  2. illiberal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illiberal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. illiberal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. illiberal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Illiberal, illiberal: Wordnik
  7. illiberal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. illiberal: Wiktionary
  9. illiberal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. illiberal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. illiberal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Illiberal, illiberal: Dictionary.com
  13. Illiberal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Illiberal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. illiberal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. illiberal: Rhymezone
  17. Illiberal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. illiberal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. illiberal: FreeDictionary.org
  20. illiberal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. illiberal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. illiberal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. illiberal: Legal dictionary

(Note: See illiberality as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Restricting or failing to sufficiently promote individual choice and freedom.
▸ adjective:  Narrow-minded; bigoted.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Ungenerous, stingy.
▸ adjective:  (economics, politics) Not adhering to either liberalism or neoliberalism.
▸ noun:  One opposed to liberal principles.

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narrow-minded, narrow, intolerant, unliberal, provincial, restrictivist, antiliberal, antiliberty, liberticide, overindividualistic, more...

Opposite:
liberal, broad-minded, tolerant, open-minded

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right-wing, left-wing, authoritarian, totalitarian, oligarchic, despotic, more...

Phrases:
Illiberal democracy, more...

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Similar:
narrow-minded, narrow, intolerant, unliberal, provincial, restrictivist, antiliberal, antiliberty, liberticide, overindividualistic, more...

Opposite:
liberal, broad-minded, tolerant, open-minded

Types:
right-wing, left-wing, authoritarian, totalitarian, oligarchic, despotic, more...

Phrases:
Illiberal democracy, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     brown,     olive, more...



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