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up-minded

up-minded adjective: up-beat; positive; progressive.

Adjective

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

  1. Up-beat; positive; progressive.
    • If people are upminded about future possibilities, present tragedies diminish in psychological consequence.1975, Playgirl
    • They are representative reform and opening up-minded officials in North Korea.1997, British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service, British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service, Summary of world broadcasts

Forms of up-minded

comparativemore up-minded
superlativemost up-minded
alternative formupminded

Origin of up-minded

From up- + minded.

Questions about up-minded

What does up-minded mean?
Up-minded means up-beat; positive; progressive.
What part of speech is up-minded?
Up-minded is an adjective.

Words near up-minded in the dictionary

  1. up-guns
  2. up-handed
  3. up-jumped
  4. up-line
  5. up-lines
  6. up-minded
  7. up-or-out
  8. up-over
  9. up-plow
  10. up-plows
  11. up-pulled

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