WEAK-MINDED Synonyms: 197 Similar and Opposite Words

weak-minded

adjective

ˈwēk-ˈmīn-dəd

as in dumb

not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily I felt a little weak-minded at the beginning of the semester but eventually the class was a breeze

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as in foolish

showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment a weak-minded decision to use all of their savings to buy lottery tickets in the hopes of hitting the jackpot

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Recent Examples of weak-minded In Killers of the Flower Moon, his Ernest Burkhart starts off as a mopey, weak-minded World War One veteran, eager to do anything for his godfather uncle (Robert De Niro), but there’s still a certain likability to his dim-bulb submissiveness. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025 And one aspect of ageism is assuming that older people are dependent and weak-minded, and need other (younger) people to tell them what to do. —

Erika Andersen, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 The older sister, Elena, is thin, beautiful, and somewhat weak-minded. —

Victoria Uren, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 Whereas Navalny was poisoned, DT is actually doing the poisoning of his weak-minded supporters. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024 The young man is a weak-minded child in an adult body. —

Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023

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Telling the story this way elides, smooths over, and underestimates the role of circumstance and dumb luck.

— Charles Yu, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
Advertisement This strategy was tried in the dumb-bomb era.

— Richard Hall, Time, 3 Mar. 2026