MINDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does minded mean? 

• MINDED (adjective)
  The adjective MINDED has 2 senses:

1. (used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified

2. (usually followed by 'to') naturally disposed toward

  Familiarity information: MINDED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified

Context example:

career-minded

Similar:

orientated; oriented (adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(usually followed by 'to') naturally disposed toward

Synonyms:

apt; disposed; given; minded; tending

Context example:

I am not minded to answer any questions

Similar:

inclined ((often followed by 'to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency)

 Context examples 

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“It ain't that. Some good and some bad goes, no doubt, to all callings. What I wish is, that parties was brought up stronger-minded.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For this reason I asked you to return with me, as I was minded to make your further acquaintance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Don’t look, Miss Brewster, please don’t look,” I had begged of her, and I was glad that she had minded me and been spared the sight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"I am minded to build me an igloo," he said one day to Klosh-Kwan and a number of the hunters.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He had good schooling in his young days and can speak like a book when so minded; and brave—a lion's nothing alongside of Long John!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"No; the science professors should live. They're really great. But it would be a good deed to break the heads of nine-tenths of the English professors—little, microscopic-minded parrots!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With Mars opposed to your natal Sun, you won’t have total control, so you will have to be open-minded and work with other’s viewpoints and opinions.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Nor do I particularly affect simple-minded old ladies.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)