Using the Merrian Webster definition I'm happy to be called a liberal, especially when you look at the contrasted words!!
Entry Word: liberal
Function: adjective
Text: 1 marked by generosity and openhandedness (a liberal allowance for his son)
Synonyms - bounteous, bountiful, free, freehanded, generous, handsome, munificent, openhanded, unsparing
Related Word - exuberant, lavish, prodigal, profuse; benevolent, charitable, eleemosynary, philanthropic
Contrasted Words - closefisted, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, stingy, tight, tightfisted; meager, scanty
Antonyms close
2 Synonyms - PLENTIFUL, abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, generous, plenteous, plenty
3 not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms (modern young people usually have a liberal attitude toward sex)
Synonyms - advanced, broad, broad-minded, progressive, radical, tolerant, wide
Related Word - forbearing, indulgent, lenient
Contrasted Words - rigid, rigorous, strict, stringent; dictatorial, doctrinaire, dogmatic, oracular; conservative, reactionary
Antonyms - authoritarian