liberalise

Other forms of liberalise

past tense

liberalised·

present participle

liberalising·

third person

liberalises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about liberalise

What does liberalise mean?

liberalise means "become more liberal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liberalise?

liberalise has 4 syllables and divides as li-be-ra-lise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for liberalise?

Close synonyms include liberalize, liberalize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is liberalise a common word?

liberalise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.