I was poking around at thesaurus.com because, once again, I couldn’t remember a word (which I never did find, damn it), and thought this was interesting.<\/p>\n
Their entry for liberal<\/u>:<\/p>\n
Main Entry: liberal
\nPart of Speech: adjective 1
\nDefinition: progressive
\nSynonyms: advanced, avant-garde, big, broad, broad-minded, catholic, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, enlightened, flexible, free, general, high-minded, humanistic, humanitarian, impartial, indulgent, inexact, interested, latitudinarian, left, lenient, libertarian, loose, magnanimous, not close, not literal, not strict, permissive, pink, radical, rational, reasonable, receiving, receptive, reformist, tolerant, unbiased, unbigoted, unconventional, understanding, unorthodox, unprejudiced
\nAntonyms: conservative
\nSource: Roget’s New Millennium\u2122 Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
\nCopyright \u00a9 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n
And for conservative<\/u>:<\/p>\n
Main Entry: conservative
\nPart of Speech: adjective
\nDefinition: moderate
\nSynonyms: bourgeois, cautious, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old-line, orthodox, quiet, red-neck, right, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread
\nAntonyms: incautious, left-wing, liberal, progressive, radical, revolutionary
\nSource: Roget’s New Millennium\u2122 Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
\nCopyright \u00a9 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n
It may just be me, but it seems like “conservative” is painted more negatively than “liberal”, and in a thesaurus, of all places. Who knew Roget was such a revolutionary?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was poking around at thesaurus.com because, once again, I couldn’t remember a word (which I never did find, damn it), and thought this was interesting. Their entry for liberal: Main Entry: liberal Part of Speech: adjective 1 Definition: progressive Synonyms: advanced, avant-garde, big, broad, broad-minded, catholic, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, enlightened, flexible, free, general, high-minded, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}