Meanings
comparative more open-minded · superlative most open-minded
- Willing to consider new and different concepts, ideas, or opinions.
'He came here open-minded to commit a dacoity. Yes, to cut, rob, kill, and carry off what he desired.'
1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 15, in Kim2 more examples
Very Lonely in Alabama seeking to correspond with warm-hearted free-spirited intelligent and open-minded people for long-term relationships as we are all of the above.
1982 December 25, Danny Moulds, Jimmy W. Byce, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 15"I certainly have more patience now than I used to do. I'm a lot more empathetic and it's taught me to be open minded, non-judgemental and to stop and think about what I'm going to say next.
2020 July 1, “Case Studies: Karen Barnes”, in Rail, page 58Synonyms: accepting, broad-minded, impartial, persuadable, tolerant, unbiased, understanding, avuncular · Antonyms: closed-minded, close-minded, narrow-minded
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWilling to consider new and different concepts, ideas, or opinions.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveready to entertain new ideas
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic مُنْفَتِح
- مُنْفَتِح (munfatiḥ)willing to consider new ideas
Bulgarian либерален
- либерален (liberalen)willing to consider new ideas
Chinese Mandarin 開明 /开明, 開放 /开放
- 開明 /开明 (kāimíng)willing to consider new ideas
- 開放 /开放 (kāifàng)willing to consider new ideas
- 開朗 /开朗 (kāilǎng)willing to consider new ideas
- 豁達 /豁达 (huòdá)willing to consider new ideas
- 虛心 /虚心 (xūxīn)willing to consider new ideas
- 明朗 (mínglǎng)willing to consider new ideas
- 開化 /开化 (kāihuà)willing to consider new ideas
Danish fordomsfri
- fordomsfriwilling to consider new ideas
Esperanto larĝanima
- larĝanimawilling to consider new ideas
Finnish ennakkoluuloton, avaramielinen
- ennakkoluulotonwilling to consider new ideas
- avaramielinenwilling to consider new ideas
French ouvert d'esprit
- ouvert d'espritwilling to consider new ideas
German aufgeschlossen, unvoreingenommen
- aufgeschlossenwilling to consider new ideas
- unvoreingenommenwilling to consider new ideas
Greek ανοιχτόμυαλος
- ανοιχτόμυαλος (anoichtómyalos)willing to consider new ideas
Italian aperto, aperto di mente
- apertowilling to consider new ideas
- aperto di mentewilling to consider new ideas
- disponibilewilling to consider new ideas
Māori mākohakoha
- mākohakohawilling to consider new ideas
Portuguese de mente aberta
- de mente abertawilling to consider new ideas
Russian непредвзя́тый, непредубеждённый
- непредвзя́тый (nepredvzjátyj)willing to consider new ideas
- непредубеждённый (nepredubeždjónnyj)willing to consider new ideas
- широ́ких взгля́дов (širókix vzgljádov)willing to consider new ideas
- с широ́ким кругозо́ром (s širókim krugozórom)willing to consider new ideas
Spanish abierto de mente, abierto
- abierto de mentewilling to consider new ideas
- abiertowilling to consider new ideas
- de mentalidad abiertawilling to consider new ideas
Turkish açık fikirli, geniş
- açık fikirliwilling to consider new ideas
- genişwilling to consider new ideas
Ukrainian неупере́джений
- неупере́джений (neuperédženyj)willing to consider new ideas
Vietnamese khai phóng, phóng khoáng
- khai phóngwilling to consider new ideas
- phóng khoángwilling to consider new ideas
- cởi mởwilling to consider new ideas
Cite this entry
open-minded. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/open-minded
“open-minded.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/open-minded. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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