Dictionary

soft-minded en · ADJ

Etymology

From soft + minded.

Meanings

1. Lacking courage and conviction; easily swayed, persuaded, or intimidated.
   • The soft-minded manager often defers direct action in the hope that the situation will remedy itself. 1963, Joe D. Batten, Tough-minded management, →ISBN, page 37:
2. Lacking intellectual rigor; Given to sentimentality.
   • The liberated educator does not accept soft-minded religiosity because it embraces all kinds of superstitions. 2010, Ivan Hugh Walters, Education and Cultural Politics: Interrogating Idiotic Education, →ISBN, page 285:
   • Such unabashed sentiment and soft-minded engagement with the problems and powers of literary art are common enough in every age. 2013, Emory Elliott, Martha Banta, Houston A. Baker, The Columbia Literary History of the United States, →ISBN, page 284:

Forms

Deriveds

soft-mindedly · soft-mindedness