weakminded

See also: weak-minded

English

Etymology

weak +‎ minded

Adjective

weakminded (comparative more weakminded, superlative most weakminded)

1. Alternative spelling of weak-minded
   • 2001, Upton Sinclair, Presidential Agent I - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 218:

     An aroma of fraud hung about it, and only a weakminded person would waste time on it.

   • 1961, J. A. Laponce, The Government of the Fifth Republic, page 158:

     They appeal to the brave gens and gens braves as opposed to the "weakminded" and "dishonest" politicians and they assume that those once ready to die for the fatherland should again unite in the spirit of battleground comradeship

   • 2006, Andrew Fish, Erasmus Hobart and the Golden Arrow, →ISBN, page 61:

     It didn't help that here, even more than back home, the promise of justice was little more than reassurance for the weakminded.

   • 1994, Michael Clark, Catherine Crawford, Legal Medicine in History, →ISBN, page 234:

     Existing studies of such institutions show that different institutional situations resulted in different ways of classifying weakminded inmates.

Derived terms

• weakmindedness