broad-minded

See also: broadminded

English

Adjective

broad-minded (comparative more broad-minded, superlative most broad-minded)

1. Having an open mind; tolerant of diversity.
   • 1980 April 12, Larry McDonald, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19:

     I'm broadminded and understanding of the struggle of your organization because as a prisoner I've been discriminated against myself.

Synonyms

• catholic
• cosmopolitan
• dispassionate
• flexible
• free-thinking
• liberal
• open-minded
• permissive
• progressive
• receptive
• tolerant
• unbiased
• undogmatic
• unprejudiced

Antonyms

• narrow-minded

Derived terms

• broad-mindedly
• broad-mindedness

 

Translations

having an open mind, tolerant of diversity

• Armenian: լայնախոհ (hy) (laynaxoh)
• Belarusian: непрадузяты (njepraduzjaty)
• Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 開明的／开明的 (kāimíng de)
• Esperanto: larĝanima
• Faroese: víðskygdur
• Finnish: avarakatseinen (fi); laajakatseinen (fi)
• French: large d’esprit (fr), ouvert d’esprit
• German: großzügig (de), weltoffen (de), tolerant (de)
• Romanian: deschis la minte
• Russian: с широ́ким кругозо́ром (s širókim krugozórom), непредубеждённый (ru) (nepredubeždjónnyj), непредвзя́тый (ru) (nepredvzjátyj), широкомы́слящий (širokomýsljaščij)
• Swedish: vidsynt (sv)
• Turkish: açık fikirli (tr)