Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the mind free from care, trouble, or perplexity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not perplexed; having a mind free from care.

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Examples

  • When some free-minded girls convince them that sex between two straight men is the only virgin snow left to trample upon, the two "bro-mance" buddies keep daring one another to back down ... as the actuality of the situation keeps looming larger.

    Sundance Review: ‘Humpday’ » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • A well-dressed man/woman... is confident and free-minded.

    Blue Carreon: A Conversation With Designer Sophie Theallet Blue Carreon 2012

  • The Putin regime is as hostile as ever to democracy at home and to free-minded neighbors.

    Obama's Foreign Policy Paradox Matthew Kaminski 2010

  • But creative, free-minded human beings were more ravenous than bubbleheads, it turned out.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • The Putin regime is as hostile as ever to democracy at home and to free-minded neighbors.

    Obama's Foreign Policy Paradox Matthew Kaminski 2010

  • "It is all the more regrettable that a number of Western governments and the United States have committed themselves to defend those racist perpetrators of genocide, while the awakened, conscious and free-minded people of the world condemn aggression, brutalities and bombardments of civilians of Gaza."

    Excerpts from Ahmadinejad's speech..... GayandRight 2009

  • The second argument contended that despite what you see on tv and in the parliament, and despite the arrogance shown by the government, people in Italy are free-minded as ever and opposition to Berlusconi is outspoken and wide.

    Luca Sofri: Hints of North Korea on italian tv 2009

  • •The security of all free-minded nations and their citizens demands that our greatest minds, strongest personalities, and world leaders come together and counter the daily dose of despotism, tribalism, corruption, conspiracy theories, anti-Americanism, anti-Westernism and political Islam which has become a staple for so much of the "Muslim" media.

    M. Zuhdi Jasser: Obama's Speech in Egypt Must Highlight the Plight of Reformers and the Threat of Islamism 2009

  • But creative, free-minded human beings were more ravenous than bubbleheads, it turned out.

    Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • But creative, free-minded human beings were more ravenous than bubbleheads, it turned out.

    Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008

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