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right-minded

right-minded adjective: sane; clear-thinking.

Adjective

right-minded (comparative more right-minded, superlative most right-minded)

  1. Sane; clear-thinking.
    • Right-minded people do not throw away their lives because trivial insults occur.
    Synonyms:
    right-thinking
  2. Decent; morally upright.
    • Surely all right-minded people agree that bigamy is wrong.
    • Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly...1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Three Plays for Puritans”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC...

Synonyms of right-minded

Forms of right-minded

comparativemore right-minded
superlativemost right-minded

Words formed from right-minded

Questions about right-minded

What does right-minded mean?
Right-minded means sane; clear-thinking.
What part of speech is right-minded?
Right-minded is an adjective.

Words near right-minded in the dictionary

  1. right-ho
  2. right-justified
  3. right-libertarian
  4. right-libertarianism
  5. right-libertarians
  6. right-minded
  7. right-mindedly
  8. right-mindedness
  9. right-mindednesses
  10. right-o
  11. right-of-center

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