weak-minded
See also: weakminded
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- Foolish or ignorant.
- 2009, J. V. Jones, A Cavern of Black Ice:
- Stupid, she told herself. Vain, weak-minded, and stupid.
- weak-willed; easily swayed or corrupted.
- 1983 May 25, 23:15 from the start, in Return of the Jedi (Star Wars)[1], episode VI (Science Fiction), Lucasfilm Ltd., →OCLC:
- Jabba the Hutt: I told you not to admit him. / Luke Skywalker: I must be allowed to speak. / Bib Fortuna: He must be allowed to speak. / Jabba the Hutt: You weak-minded fool! He's using an old Jedi mind trick! / Luke Skywalker: You will bring Captain Solo and the wookie to me. / Jabba the Hutt: Your mind powers will not work on me, boy.
- 2013, Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl, William Irwin, Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine, →ISBN:
- Plato sympathizes with the desire to influence weak-minded people. However, rather than directly controlling the minds of such people by the power of his own will, he uses the power of his thought to construct a myth designed to control the beliefs of the weak-minded by appealing to their imagination.
- Needy or fearful; characterized by weakness.
- 2012, Ray Comfort, Comfort Food, →ISBN:
- I have lost count of how many timesI have heard that Christianity is a crutch for weak-minded people, who can't make it in life without faith.
- mentally deficient
- 2004, William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd, The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, Volume 3, →ISBN, page 279:
- Altogether thirty-four out of 146 'criminal lunatics' admitted to the asylum between 1852 and 1890 were described as weak-minded or imbecile by the asylum staff.
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foolish or ignorant
weak-willed
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mentally deficient
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