large-minded

American  

[lahrj-mahyn-did] / ˈlɑrdʒˈmaɪn dɪd /

adjective

1. having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.

---

large-minded British  

adjective

1. generous or liberal in attitudes

---

Other Word Forms

• large-mindedness
  noun
• large-mindedly
  adverb

---

Etymology

Origin of large-minded

First recorded in 1715–25

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

large-minded

But when hungry men were too weak to work, and no seed was available to plant, she concluded that “the reasonable and large-minded political economist would allow that exigencies require exceptions.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Shakespeare is thus both nativist and international, chauvinistic and large-minded, malleable to incompatible causes and ideologies.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2019

From the German viewpoint wise and peaceful co-operation between debtor and creditor countries might include two large-minded measures whereby Germany's capacity to make international payments might be increased.

From Time Magazine Archive

But unlike many of his fellow philosophes, Voltaire was large-minded enough to realize what the end of faith meant, and wise enough to have no undue optimism about the nature of man without God.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is chiefly due to these two large-minded, far-seeing gentlemen that we possess a statistical detail of the very important commerce of the Isthmus, as well as along the west coast of South America.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---