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free-thinking

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1. free-thinking - Adjective

2. free-thinking - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)

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free thinking

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Examples

The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion. George Berkeley

I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it. Maurice Cowling

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time. Marc Guggenheim

She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies. Sara Shepard

We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. Thomas Carlyle

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