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adjective

broad-minded adj.

Incapable of being shocked. Opposite of shockable.

Synonyms: unshockable.

Inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from one's own. Opposite of narrow-minded. (Narrower terms: free-thinking, latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical)

Synonyms: broadminded, broad, liberal, tolerant, open-minded, open.

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Etymology of 'Broad-minded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... always hold it a privilege that he had the pleasure of meeting in the flesh a remnant of the men who laid the foundation of the institutions by means of which this great Commonwealth has grown and prospered; big, broad-minded, strong men who, whatever their failings—for they were very human—were generous to a fault, ever ready to listen to the cry of distress or help a fallen brother to his feet, scornful of pettiness, ignorant of snobbery, fair and square in their ...

— A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country • Thomas Dykes Beasley

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— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers

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