The Collaborative International Dictionary
free-thinking \free-thinking\ adj. inclined to forms one's own opinions rather than depend upon authority, especially about social and religious issues; exhibiting boldness of speculation; skeptical of authority.
Syn: latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical.
WordNet
adj. unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) [syn: latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical]
Usage examples of "free-thinking".
The young Jesuit learned how the illustrious Count de Maistre had concerned himself about the future greatness of the Society, how a free-thinking Russian had stolen a secret manuscript and a magic knife from him.
North America, with salaries, pensions, and everything that could be obnoxious to a free-thinking people.
Atheism and free-thinking were for wealthy cities, not for hamlets where a hard winter or a bad storm could mean starvation for whole households.
The dossier he’d scanned on the long trip out from Terra had called her one of the New Sierran army’s most intelligent and free-thinking officers, but it had left him expecting the stereotypical hatchet-faced schoolteacher instead of a young, attractive woman who spoke with studied eloquence and no small degree of passion.
The dossier he'd scanned on the long trip out from Terra had called her one of the New Sierran army's most intelligent and free-thinking officers, but it had left him expecting the stereotypical hatchet-faced schoolteacher instead of a young, attractive woman who spoke with studied eloquence and no small ~degree of passion.