Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

right-minded

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.14 in modern English

Syllables: right--mind-ed
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Sane; clear-thinking.

adj

Decent; morally upright.

Example Sentences

"Right-minded people do not throw away their lives because trivial insults occur."
"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 gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded."

Inflected Forms

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

Phrases

right-mindedly right-mindedness in one's right mind

Frequently Paired Words

in one's right mind right-hearted

Synonyms

right-thinking

Questions

What does right-minded mean?: Sane; clear-thinking.

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