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right-minded

right-minded

1 5.9
Having fair and honest beliefs about what is good
  • adjective
  • /ˈraɪtˈmaɪndɪd/
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  • No right-minded sailor discards what might yet save him.
  • right-minded people
  • right-minded person

What what right minded person goes, yeah, the hotter the better.

Examples

  • The sad thing is, if he wins reelection, he won't have any reason to care about what any right-minded citizen thinks.

    Blog text (9)
  • Thus it is proven: the morally right-minded support treaty rights.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Any right-minded person would understand how our connection with Allah is not based on any one language.

    Blog text (26)
  • He is really bright and right-minded.

    Blog text (9)
  • That's why Christie, Rubio, and any other right-minded, sane Republican didn't run in 2012.

    Blog text (9)
  • The "Big Four," Crafts believed, were in the proclamation stage; most "right-minded people" (n25) agreed that they were evil, and efforts to legislate against them might well succeed.

    Academic text (2002)
  • He thought that Mller-Hill in time would be shown to have lacked imagination, that right-minded Americans would bring their government to account, and that Africans would realize their victimization by the imperialist West had taken a new and twisted form.

    Academic text (2013)
  • I thanked Oscar and concluded that no reasonable, right-minded, fully sighted human being could have meandered into this Best Buy and, with all their faculties still functioning, believed they had bought an iPad when they had actually bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab.

    Blog text (7)
  • A right-minded individual always stands up for what is just.

  • In a right-minded society, everyone is treated with respect and fairness.

Synonyms

moral
vsright-minded
3.7

Concerned with ideas of right and wrong in people's actions

is about holding views that are judged morally correct or just
righteous
vsright-minded
260 4.7

Acting in a morally good way that people see as fair

is about having opinions considered morally correct rather than actions
fair-minded
vsright-minded
12 4.4

Being careful to judge people and ideas honestly without taking sides

focuses on holding views seen as morally correct rather than impartiality
high-minded
vsright-minded
  • Formal
9 6.8

Someone who has strong moral beliefs and high ideals

is about ordinary views judged morally correct rather than lofty ideals

How Moral

upright
15 4.0
principled
39 3.8
right-minded
1 5.9
immoral
144 4.6

Surface Forms

right-minded positive

Morphology

right-minded = right + minded (transparent) = right + mind + ed

The meaning is a straightforward combination of 'right' + 'minded' (having a mind that is right/moral), following a familiar pattern like 'open-minded'.

Etymology

Right-minded comes from two simple parts: right meaning 'correct' or 'good', and minded, as in open-minded, meaning 'having a certain kind of mind'. So a right-minded person is someone whose views are seen as morally correct or fair.