illiberal
illiberal 英 [ɪˈlɪbərəl] 美 [ɪˈlɪbərəl]
adj. 偏执的；吝啬的；粗鄙的；狭隘的；缺乏文化素养的
名词复数:illiberals
- Someone who's illiberal is close-minded and intolerant. Your illiberal grandfather might constantly complain about "kids today with their long hair and tattoos."
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- adj. 偏执的；吝啬的；粗鄙的；狭隘的；缺乏文化素养的
- illiberal (adj.) 1530s, "ungentlemanly, base, mean," from Middle French illiberal (14c.), from Latin illiberalis "ungenerous, mean, sordid; unworthy of a freeman; stingy, disobliging," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + liberalis (see liberal (adj.)). A sense of "narrow-minded politically; unconcerned with the rights or liberties of others" is attested from 1640s (as a noun in this sense 1818), and might be revived to ease the load of meanings that weighs on conservative.
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