mindmap root((自由)) liberal implies a greater or less degree of emancipation from convention, tradition, or dogma and may suggest either pragmatism and tolerance or unorthodoxy, extremism, and laxness: a politician's ~ tendencies. progressive is likely to imply a comparison with what is backward or reactionary and a readiness to forsake old methods and beliefs for new ones that hold more promise: went to the most ~ school her parents could find. advanced applies to what is or seems to be ahead of its proper time and can connote liberalism and mental daring or extreme foolhardiness and experimental impracticality: a man with advanced ideas. radical is likely to imply willingness to destroy the institutions which conserve the ideas or policies condemned and comes close to revolutionary in meaning: an idea conceived by a group of ~ reformers.