free-thinking

English

Adjective

free-thinking (comparative more free-thinking, superlative most free-thinking)

  1. Having opinions that are contrary to dogma or the positions of authority.
    • 2018 March 14, Roger Penrose, “'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary by Roger Penrose”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      His background was academic, though not directly in mathematics or physics. His father, Frank, was an expert in tropical diseases and his mother, Isobel (nee Walker), was a free-thinking radical who had a great influence on him.
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