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LATITUDINARIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does latitudinarian mean?
• LATITUDINARIAN (noun)
The noun LATITUDINARIAN has 1 sense:
1. a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
Familiarity information: LATITUDINARIAN used as a noun is very rare.
• LATITUDINARIAN (adjective)
The adjective LATITUDINARIAN has 1 sense:
1. unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
Familiarity information: LATITUDINARIAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("latitudinarian" is a kind of...):
liberal; liberalist; progressive (a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties)
Domain category:
faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
Synonyms:
free-thinking; latitudinarian; undogmatic; undogmatical
Similar:
broad-minded (inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from your own)
Domain category:
faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)
Derivation:
latitude (scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction)
latitude (freedom from normal restraints in conduct)
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