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单词 weak-minded
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Definition of weak-minded in English:

weak-minded

adjective
  • Lacking determination, emotional strength, or intellectual capacity.

    优柔寡断的;缺乏激情的;智力低下的,低能的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The hellish day was designed to root out the weak and weak-minded, confirmed coach Brian Noble.
    • Lara was far from weak-minded, if anything she was strong-willed and open to opinions.
    • We become soft or weak, and weak-minded as a result.
    • Perhaps the Americans remain strong in their Christian faith because they are encouraged to trust and respect God without being regarded as weak-minded, odd or ‘Bible bashers’ as is the case in this country.
    • She is an attractive, weak-minded and desperate middle-aged teacher who gives into the temptation of sleeping with a reasonably virile teenage boy who has a crush on her.
    • Women don't want someone that bores them with predictability, who allows them to control him, who isn't a challenge, and who is a weak-minded wimp.
    • You also have, frankly, some weak-minded people.
    • Most European and many American commentators now appear to believe that only weak-minded dupes could vote to re-elect him.
    • ‘He was a rather weak-minded specimen,’ said the author.
    • It is an acknowledgment that you are weak-minded, cowardly, can be deceived and manipulated, and easily conned out of your money.
    • If he refuses, you must kill him as a warning to other weak-minded individuals.
    • ‘He takes an almost childlike pleasure in baiting socialists, pinks, reds and other weak-minded leftists,’ laughed one source who knows him well.
    • He hadn't believed her; only a weak-minded fool would.
    • Rangayana Raghu steals the show as a corrupt and weak-minded police inspector.
    • Sometimes I can make weak-minded people do what I want, too.
    • He didn't have time to listen to the weak-minded fool prattle on.
    • Too much of this kind of thinking makes the individual weak-minded.
    • It's the cocksure performance of weak-minded bullies who will be found out by the first decent team they play.
    • If you're weak-minded then I don't think you'll make it far as a footballer.
    • I recalled my first impressions of the girl: a weak-minded, weak-bodied, cry-babyish wimp.
    Synonyms
    irresolute, weak-willed, weak, impressionable, spineless, indecisive, unassertive, persuadable, persuasible, submissive, compliant, pusillanimous
    foolish, simple, feeble-minded, witless, mindless, brainless, stupid, idiotic

Derivatives

  • weak-mindedness

  • noun
    • Rudeness and a lack of civility are traits that go hand in hand with weakness of all sorts, especially weak-mindedness, and we should do our utmost to avoid such behavior.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When I was in graduate school, anyone so unwise as to have a spouse or children was tacitly encouraged to disguise or downplay this unhappy fact of nature; it was regarded, by many members of the faculty at that institution, as an indicator of weak-mindedness, betraying a lack of serious commitment to scholarship.
      • They believe that no government that suffers form faintheartedness, weak-mindedness and the absence of professional integrity and competence, deserves to be trusted to govern.
      • But far worse than the paranoid, spiteful style of the President and his advisers is the weak-mindedness and susceptibility of the media that make his approach effective.
      • If women possess any power over you, it's only because of your own weak-mindedness.

Definition of weak-minded in US English:

weak-minded

adjectiveˌwēkˈmīndədˌwikˈmaɪndəd
  • Lacking determination, emotional strength, or intellectual capacity.

    优柔寡断的;缺乏激情的;智力低下的,低能的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You also have, frankly, some weak-minded people.
    • She is an attractive, weak-minded and desperate middle-aged teacher who gives into the temptation of sleeping with a reasonably virile teenage boy who has a crush on her.
    • We become soft or weak, and weak-minded as a result.
    • He didn't have time to listen to the weak-minded fool prattle on.
    • ‘He was a rather weak-minded specimen,’ said the author.
    • If you're weak-minded then I don't think you'll make it far as a footballer.
    • Perhaps the Americans remain strong in their Christian faith because they are encouraged to trust and respect God without being regarded as weak-minded, odd or ‘Bible bashers’ as is the case in this country.
    • It's the cocksure performance of weak-minded bullies who will be found out by the first decent team they play.
    • Most European and many American commentators now appear to believe that only weak-minded dupes could vote to re-elect him.
    • If he refuses, you must kill him as a warning to other weak-minded individuals.
    • Sometimes I can make weak-minded people do what I want, too.
    • He hadn't believed her; only a weak-minded fool would.
    • Rangayana Raghu steals the show as a corrupt and weak-minded police inspector.
    • I recalled my first impressions of the girl: a weak-minded, weak-bodied, cry-babyish wimp.
    • It is an acknowledgment that you are weak-minded, cowardly, can be deceived and manipulated, and easily conned out of your money.
    • Too much of this kind of thinking makes the individual weak-minded.
    • Women don't want someone that bores them with predictability, who allows them to control him, who isn't a challenge, and who is a weak-minded wimp.
    • Lara was far from weak-minded, if anything she was strong-willed and open to opinions.
    • The hellish day was designed to root out the weak and weak-minded, confirmed coach Brian Noble.
    • ‘He takes an almost childlike pleasure in baiting socialists, pinks, reds and other weak-minded leftists,’ laughed one source who knows him well.
    Synonyms
    irresolute, weak-willed, weak, impressionable, spineless, indecisive, unassertive, persuadable, persuasible, submissive, compliant, pusillanimous
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