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broadminded

[brawd-mahyn-did] Origin

broad-mind·ed

[brawd-mahyn-did]
adjective
free from prejudice or bigotry; unbiased; liberal; tolerant.

Origin:
1590–1600

broad-mind·ed·ly, adverb
broad-mind·ed·ness, noun


open-minded, catholic, flexible; permissive.


narrow-minded, biased, bigoted, intolerant.

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Broadminded is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

broad-minded
1590s; see broad + mind. This abstract mental sense of broad existed in O.E.; e.g. bradnes "breadth," also "liberality."
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