broadminded
Adjective
Meaning
broadminded (comparative more broadminded, superlative most broadminded)
Alternative spelling of broad-minded.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
Some of the Joe E Brown comedies also could be said to fall into this category, particularly Broadminded (1931) and perhaps Earthworm Tractors (1936).