soft-minded

soft-minded

See also: softminded

English

Alternative forms

• softminded

Etymology

soft +‎ minded

Adjective

soft-minded (comparative more soft-minded, superlative most soft-minded)

1. Lacking courage and conviction; easily swayed, persuaded, or intimidated.
   • 1963, Joe D. Batten, Tough-minded management, →ISBN, page 37:

     The soft-minded manager often defers direct action in the hope that the situation will remedy itself.

2. Lacking intellectual rigor; Given to sentimentality.
   • 2010, Ivan Hugh Walters, Education and Cultural Politics: Interrogating Idiotic Education, →ISBN, page 285:

     The liberated educator does not accept soft-minded religiosity because it embraces all kinds of superstitions.

   • 2013, Emory Elliott, ‎Martha Banta, & ‎Houston A. Baker, The Columbia Literary History of the United States, →ISBN, page 284:

     Such unabashed sentiment and soft-minded engagement with the problems and powers of literary art are common enough in every age.