A liquid crystal display device of an electrically controlled birefringence type which carries out display in a normally white mode, the liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel comprising a liquid crystal layer , and a light reflective portion which reflects incident light from a display surface side having passed through the liquid crystal layer ; a first polarizing plate located on a display surface-facing side of the liquid crystal display panel ; and a half-wavelength plate and a first quarter-wavelength plate , which are arranged in an order from the first polarizing plate , the half-wavelength plate and the first quarter-wavelength plate being disposed between the liquid crystal display panel and the first polarizing plate , the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the light reflective portion exhibiting a retardation which is less than one-half of a retardation of the one-half-wavelength plate , at a time of no electric field application, the first quarter-wavelength plate having a slow axis which intersects a liquid-crystal molecular orientation axis that is an orientation axis of liquid crystal molecules which are homogeneously aligned at the time of no electric field application, at about 45°, the half-wavelength plate being configured to fulfill a following relationship: nx1 > nz1 > ny1, in which nx1 and ny1 represent in-plane refractive indices of the half-wavelength plate in mutually perpendicular directions, and nz1 represents a thickness-wise refractive index of the half-wavelength plate , the first quarter-wavelength plate being configured to fulfill a following relationship: nx2 > nz2 = ny2, in which nx2 and ny2 represent in-plane refractive indices of the first quarter-wavelength plate in mutually perpendicular directions, and nz2 represents a thickness-wise refractive index of the first quarter-wavelength plate . a liquid crystal display panel comprising a liquid crystal layer , and a light reflective portion which reflects incident light from a display surface side having passed through the liquid crystal layer ; a first polarizing plate located on a display surface-facing side of the liquid crystal display panel ; and a half-wavelength plate and a first quarter-wavelength plate , which are arranged in an order from the first polarizing plate , the half-wavelength plate and the first quarter-wavelength plate being disposed between the liquid crystal display panel and the first polarizing plate , the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the light reflective portion exhibiting a retardation which is less than one-half of a retardation of the one-half-wavelength plate , at a time of no electric field application, the first quarter-wavelength plate having a slow axis which intersects a liquid-crystal molecular orientation axis that is an orientation axis of liquid crystal molecules which are homogeneously aligned at the time of no electric field application, at about 45°, the half-wavelength plate being configured to fulfill a following relationship: nx1 > nz1 > ny1, in which nx1 and ny1 represent in-plane refractive indices of the half-wavelength plate in mutually perpendicular directions, and nz1 represents a thickness-wise refractive index of the half-wavelength plate , the first quarter-wavelength plate being configured to fulfill a following relationship: nx2 > nz2 = ny2, in which nx2 and ny2 represent in-plane refractive indices of the first quarter-wavelength plate in mutually perpendicular directions, and nz2 represents a thickness-wise refractive index of the first quarter-wavelength plate . <EOS>