right-minded

adjective

Sane; clear-thinking.

“Surely all right-minded people agree that bigamy is wrong.”

Meanings

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

comparative more right-minded · superlative most right-minded

  1. Sane; clear-thinking.

    Right-minded people do not throw away their lives because trivial insults occur.

    Synonyms: right-thinking

  2. Decent; morally upright.

    Surely all right-minded people agree that bigamy is wrong.

    1 more example

    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.

    1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Three Plays for Puritans”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC, page xxix

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveSane; clear-thinking.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivedisposed toward or having views based on what is right

Also see

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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