I saw something very interesting on Thesaurus.com. I just wanted your opinions on it?

[Roland Deschain]

Main Entry: liberal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: progressive
Synonyms: advanced, avant-garde, broad, broad-minded, catholic, enlightened, flexible, free, general, high-minded, humanistic, humanitarian, indulgent, intelligent, interested, latitudinarian, left, lenient, libertarian, loose, magnanimous, permissive, radical, rational, reasonable, receiving, receptive, reformist, tolerant, unbiased, unbigoted, unconventional, understanding, unorthodox, unprejudiced
Antonyms: conservative, narrow, narrow-minded



Main Entry: liberal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: giving, generous
Synonyms: altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, casual, charitable, eleemosynary, exuberant, free, free-and-easy, handsome, kind, lavish, loose, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, philanthropic, princely, prodigal, profuse, soft-touch, unselfish, unsparing, unstinging
Antonyms: economical, greedy, mean, thrifty, ungenerous



Main Entry: conservative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo
Synonyms: Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread
Antonyms: exaggerated, incautious, left-wing, liberal, progressive, radical



Main Entry: conservative
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is cautious, moderate; an opponent of change
Synonyms: Tory, bitter-ender, classicist, conserver, conventionalist, diehard, hard hat, middle-of-the-roader, moderate, moderatist, obstructionist, old guard, old liner, preserver, reactionary, redneck, right, right-winger, rightist, silk-stocking, standpat, stick-in-the-mud, traditionalist, unprogressive
Antonyms: left-winger, liberal, progressive, radical


What do you see? What do you take from this?

I consider myself as a south park conservative

 

[nokilleye version 2.0]

It looks like an attempt to offer a complete definition perhaps even to the extent that it includes a few arguably unnecessary terms but then on the other hand, it is a thesaurus after all.


I consider myself scientific.

 

[Jason HCK]

I initially thought that this was biased, making liberals look better. Then I realized that "broad-minded," "general," "indulgent," lenient," "loose," and "permissive" aren't necessarily good things.

Likewise, "guarded," "inflexible," "controlled," "traditional," and "constant" aren't necessarily bad things. I don't think, however, that "white bread," "uncreative," "undaring," and "unimaginative" belong in the list of synonyms for "conservative."

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[nooyawker]

I take it as they should not let liberal write thesauruses, history books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, laws, etc.

 

[nooyawker]

I take it as they should not let liberal write thesauruses, history books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, laws, etc.

 

[Lib Nemesis]

I see it as a thesaurus written by a liberal

 

[What You Want to Hear]

I find it odd that "moderate" would be taken as synonymous with "conservative" (I'd also think that was weird if it were listed as a synonym of liberal).

In general, what this seems to demonstrate is that thesauruses have a way of stretching words to the point of being virtually meaningless.

 

[What You Want to Hear]

I find it odd that "moderate" would be taken as synonymous with "conservative" (I'd also think that was weird if it were listed as a synonym of liberal).

In general, what this seems to demonstrate is that thesauruses have a way of stretching words to the point of being virtually meaningless.