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broad-minded

broad-minded \broad-minded\ adj.

  1. incapable of being shocked. Opposite of shockable.

    Syn: unshockable.

  2. inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from one's own. Opposite of narrow-minded. [Narrower terms: free-thinking, latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical]

    Syn: broadminded, broad, liberal, tolerant, open-minded, open.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
broad-minded

1590s; see broad (adj.) + minded. This abstract mental sense of broad existed in Old English; for example in bradnes "breadth," also "liberality."

Wiktionary
broad-minded

a. Having an open mind; tolerant of diversity.

WordNet
broad-minded

  1. adj. incapable of being shocked; "he was warmhearted, sensible and unshockable" [syn: unshockable] [ant: shockable]

  2. inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from your own; "a judge who is broad-minded but even-handed" [ant: narrow-minded]

Usage examples of "broad-minded".

Youre an Elenian, so you dont seem to have any problems with this sort of thing, and in Deira were fairly broad-minded about such things, but I dont know that Id let Bevier in on this.

The pen-pusher was far more broad-minded there, though to him the plainsmen were so many savages.