catholic
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- adjective
- /ˈkæθəlɪk/
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católico
- Her reactions to it all were catholic; that is, untouched by prejudice.
He's fairly Catholic, you know, broad in his taste.
- He's fairly Catholic, you know, broad in his taste.
Examples
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Wilbur's conception of cultural geography is as catholic as his interests.
Academic text (2006) -
He's fairly Catholic, you know, broad in his taste.
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...for providing serious and catholic education...
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I think I'm gonna make my parents send me to a catholic school.
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The original church, for that reason, regards itself as "catholic," or universal.
Blog text (33) -
I mentioned above that liberation theology represented a break from a traditional Catholic approach to social problems.
Academic text (1992) -
We believe in one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
Academic text (1993) -
At the same time, however, our pilgrim status makes us broader, more global, and more catholic than any merely national identity could.
Academic text (2008) -
I have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a fairly catholic taste in reading material.
Blog text (7) -
His music collection is remarkably catholic, featuring everything from classical symphonies to modern pop.
Synonyms
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Willing to accept different ideas and people
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Open to different opinions and ways of life
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That has influence across the world
Willing to accept other people's ideas and be kind to them
Open to new ideas and willing to change views
Being open to different religious opinions and practices
Antonyms
Compounds
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A Christian church led by the Pope in the Vatican that has its own teachings and services
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A Christian who belongs to a church that left the Roman Catholic Church because they rejected the pope's authority
The Spanish rulers Ferdinand V and Isabella I who united Spain and promoted Catholicism
- Archaic
A historical measure of length equal to the length of a pendulum that takes one second to swing
A person in the Anglican Church who values its Catholic traditions and practices
A group of churches that left the Roman Catholic Church over the pope's authority
A Christian church also called the Eastern Orthodox Church that follows Byzantine rites
How Broad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Catholic comes from the Greek word katholikos, made from kata and holos, which mean 'according to' and 'whole'. So catholic originally meant 'universal' or 'for the whole', and that helps you remember its modern sense of being broad and including many different kinds of things.