Definition of "weak-minded" []

• Having or exhibiting a lack of judgment or conviction. (adjective)
• Foolish; silly. (adjective)
• Of less than normal intellect. Not in scientific use. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "ALWAYS a cutting self-critic, Charles Ives said he hadn't been adventurous enough in his four violin sonatas, written in what he called his "weak-minded, retrogressive moments.""
• "This Republican Thanksgiving Day message to the nation is fatuous in the fullest sense of the word (asinine, brainless, foolish, sheepheaded, silly, unwitty, weak-headed, weak-minded, and witless)."
• "But the risk of him hypnotizing enough of the weak-minded is simply too great."