English Dictionary

weak-minded

形容詞

Foolish or ignorant. / weak-willed; easily swayed or corrupted. / Needy or fearful; characterized by weakness. / mentally deficient

日本語の意味

愚かで無知な / 意志が弱く、容易に影響されやすい / 依存的で臆病な / 精神的に劣る

The weak-minded manager ignored the safety warnings, putting everyone at risk.

愚かな管理者は安全上の警告を無視し、全員を危険にさらした。

意味（1）

Foolish or ignorant.

Stupid, she told herself. Vain, weak-minded, and stupid.

意味（2）

weak-willed; easily swayed or corrupted.

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.

意味（3）

Needy or fearful; characterized by weakness.

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.

意味（4）

mentally deficient

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.