Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Frivolous, silly, or inanely giddy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of light mind; unsteady; volatile; capricious.

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

  • adjective Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
  • adjective showing inappropriate levity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not given to heavy thoughts or thinking, frivolous, not serious.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective showing inappropriate levity

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Examples

  • Disagreeable neighbor, excellent comrade - Extremely light-minded, and yet very affected - Indignantly naïve, nevertheless very blasé next »

    Excerpt: Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro 2009

  • At the same time there is something about Thesiger's attitude to his travels that makes C.M. Doughty, T.E. Lawrence and his other distinguished predecessors seem the most whimsical and light-minded of men.

    Drawn to Harsh Places D.J. Taylor 2011

  • She, who had served Margaret of Anjou, how could she bow the knee to her light-minded daughter?

    The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

  • I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • With 7 billion people, we're in a very tight space, not one that can be escaped by light-minded fantasies.

    Is the FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project Back in the Stimulus Bill? 2010

  • While the Holy Father was in great earnestness and charity addressing the Catholic world by his Cardinal Minister, there were circles of light-minded men in his city who were laying bets with each other whether the Syllabus would "make a row in Europe" or not.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • But a haven is wherever light-minded people get together.

    CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2007 2007

  • Like every true colonel of the Empire he saw in this correspondence, rapidly read, only the young girl who had thrown herself at the head of a poet; but in the letters which we were forced to lack of space to suppress, a better judge would have admired the dignified and gracious reserve which Modeste had substituted for the rather aggressive and light-minded tone of her first letters.

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • But the race of birds was created out of innocent light-minded men, who, although their minds were directed toward heaven, imagined, in their simplicity, that the clearest demonstration of the things above was to be obtained by sight; these were remodelled and transformed into birds, and they grew feathers instead of hair.

    Timaeus 2006

  • The race of birds was created out of innocent, light-minded men, who thought to pursue the study of the heavens by sight; these were transformed into birds, and grew feathers instead of hair.

    Timaeus 2006

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