Words that rhyme with liberal

• bilateral 0
  adj 1: having identical parts on each side of an axis [syn: bilateral, isobilateral, bilaterally symmetrical, bilaterally symmetric] 2: affecting or undertaken by two parties; "a bilateral agreement between the United States and Japan" 3: having two sides or parts [syn: bilateral, two-sided]
• cockerel 0
  n 1: a young domestic cock; not older than one year
• collateral 0
  adj 1: descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts" [syn: collateral, indirect] [ant: direct, lineal] 2: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying] 3: accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run" 4: situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains" n 1: a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
• cull 0
  n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject] v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" 2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn: pick, pluck, cull]
• doctoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a doctor or doctorate; "doctoral dissertation"; "doctorial candidates" [syn: doctoral, doctorial]
• doggerel 0
  n 1: a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn: doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle]
• dotterel 0
  n 1: rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia [syn: dotterel, dotrel, Charadrius morinellus, Eudromias morinellus]
• dull 0
  adj 1: lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods" [ant: lively] 2: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [ant: bright] 3: being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: dull, muffled, muted, softened] 4: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome] 5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" 6: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant: sharp] 7: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] 8: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish] 9: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" [ant: sharp] 10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather 11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" [syn: dull, thudding] 12: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, leaden] v 1: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" 2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" 3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down] 4: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull] 5: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" [syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen] 6: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull] 7: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
• electoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to elections; "electoral process" 2: relating to or composed of electors; "electoral college"
• equilateral 0
  adj 1: having all sides or faces equal n 1: a figure whose sides are all equal
• febrile 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characterized by fever; "a febrile reaction caused by an allergen" [syn: febrile, feverish] [ant: afebrile]
• federal 0
  adj 1: national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units; "the Federal Bureau of Investigation"; "federal courts"; "the federal highway program"; "federal property" 2: of or relating to the central government of a federation; "a federal district is one set aside as the seat of the national government" 3: being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman" [syn: Union, Federal] 4: characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities; "a federal system like that of the United States"; "federal governments often evolved out of confederations" [ant: unitary] n 1: a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War [syn: Federal, Federal soldier, Union soldier] 2: any federal law-enforcement officer [syn: Federal, Fed, federal official]
• fibril 0
  n 1: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber [syn: fibril, filament, strand]
• gull 0
  n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug] 2: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs [syn: gull, seagull, sea gull] v 1: make a fool or dupe of [syn: fool, gull, befool] 2: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across]
• guttural 0
  adj 1: like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs" [syn: croaky, guttural] 2: relating to or articulated in the throat; "the glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds" n 1: a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat [syn: guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant]
• hull 0
  n 1: dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut 2: persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry 3: United States naval officer who commanded the `Constitution' during the War of 1812 and won a series of brilliant victories against the British (1773-1843) [syn: Hull, Isaac Hull] 4: United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955) [syn: Hull, Cordell Hull] 5: a large fishing port in northeastern England [syn: Hull, Kingston-upon Hull] 6: the frame or body of ship v 1: remove the hulls from; "hull the berries"
• illiberal 0
  adj 1: narrow-minded about cherished opinions [syn: illiberal, intolerant]
• lateral 0
  adj 1: situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson [syn: lateral, sidelong] 2: lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body; "lateral lemniscus" n 1: a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer [syn: lateral pass, lateral]
• literal 0
  adj 1: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: actual, genuine, literal, real] 2: without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal depiction of the scene before him" 3: limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation" [ant: figurative, nonliteral] 4: avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth" n 1: a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind [syn: misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal]
• littoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a coastal or shore region n 1: the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean [syn: littoral, litoral, littoral zone, sands]
• lull 0
  n 1: a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise" [syn: letup, lull] 2: a period of calm weather; "there was a lull in the storm" [syn: lull, quiet] v 1: calm by deception; "Don't let yourself be lulled into a false state of security" 2: become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment" [syn: lull, calm down] 3: make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" [syn: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still] [ant: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on]
• mackerel 0
  n 1: flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish 2: any of various fishes of the family Scombridae
• mull 0
  n 1: a term used in Scottish names of promontories; "the Mull of Kintyre" 2: an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides v 1: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate] 2: heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink; "mulled cider"
• multilateral 0
  adj 1: having many parts or sides [syn: multilateral, many- sided] [ant: one-sided, unilateral]
• nonpareil 0
  adj 1: eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" [syn: matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled] n 1: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch] 2: colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies 3: a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar
• null 0
  adj 1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn: null, void] n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
• pastoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter" 2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: bucolic, pastoral] 3: (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian, bucolic, pastoral] n 1: a musical composition that evokes rural life [syn: pastorale, pastoral, idyll, idyl] 2: a letter from a pastor to the congregation 3: a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
• pectoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the chest or thorax; "pectoral organ" [syn: pectoral, thoracic] n 1: either of two large muscles of the chest [syn: pectoral, pectoral muscle, pectoralis, musculus pectoralis, pecs] 2: an adornment worn on the chest or breast [syn: pectoral, pectoral medallion]
• pickerel 0
  n 1: flesh of young or small pike 2: any of several North American species of small pike
• postdoctoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed n 1: a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research [syn: postdoctoral, postdoc, post doc]
• procedural 0
  adj 1: of or relating to procedure; "a procedural violation" 2: relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; "adjective law" [syn: adjective, procedural] [ant: essential, substantive]
• puerperal 0
  adj 1: relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth
• quadrilateral 0
  adj 1: having four sides [syn: quadrilateral, four-sided] n 1: a four-sided polygon [syn: quadrilateral, quadrangle, tetragon]
• scull 0
  n 1: a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward 2: each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman 3: a racing shell that is propelled by sculls v 1: propel with sculls; "scull the boat"
• skull 0
  n 1: the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates
• trilateral 0
  adj 1: involving three parties; "trilateral talks" 2: having three sides; "a trilateral figure" [syn: trilateral, triangular, three-sided] n 1: a three-sided polygon [syn: triangle, trigon, trilateral]
• unilateral 0
  adj 1: involving only one part or side; "unilateral paralysis"; "a unilateral decision" [syn: unilateral, one-sided] [ant: many-sided, multilateral] 2: tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line only
• cul 0
  n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end]
• behavioral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to behavior; "behavioral sciences" [syn: behavioral, behavioural]
• dipteral 0
• protectoral 0
• ahl 0
• cottrell 0
• bruhl 0
• schmuhl 0
• smull 0
• stull 0
• uhl 0
• sectoral 0
• guhl 0
• gul 0
• juhl 0
• kuhl 0
• kull 0
• muhl 0
• puhl 0
• shull 0
• sul 0
• thul 0
• thull 0
• tull 0
• yul 0
• septilateral 0
• debruhl 0
• subfebrile 0

See also liberal definition and liberal synonyms