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right-minded

right-minded

2 5.9
Having fair and honest beliefs about what is good
  • adjective
  • /ˈraɪtˈmaɪndɪd/
: justo
  • 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
892 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
226 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
13 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
10 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
16 4.0
principled
40 3.8
right-minded
2 5.9
immoral
131 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.