Word Meanings - CARNAL-MINDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Worldly-minded.
Related words: (words related to CARNAL-MINDED)
- WORLDLY
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining - WORLDLY-MINDED
Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n. - MINDLESS
1. Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking. 2. Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. Shak. - MINDER
1. One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom. 2. One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. Dickens. - WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan. - MINDED
Disposed; inclined; having a mind. Joseph... was minded to put her away privily. Matt. i. 19. If men were minded to live virtuously. Tillotson. Note: Minded is much used in composition; as, high-minded, feeble- minded, sober-minded, double-minded. - MIND
1. To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note. "Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play. - MINDING
Regard; mindfulness. - MINDFUL
Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant. What is man, that thou art mindful of him Ps. viii. 4. I promise you to be mindful of your admonitions. Hammond. -- Mind"ful*ly, adv. -- Mind"ful*ness, n. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - REMIND
To put in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of . When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South. - EVENMINDED
Having equanimity. - CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
Grossness of mind. - REMINDER
One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance. - HIGH-MINDEDNESS
The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity. - EAR-MINDED
Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded. - ZEMINDARY; ZEMINDARI
See ZAMINDARY - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - BLOODY-MINDED
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden. - ABLE-MINDED
Having much intellectual power. -- A`ble-mind"ed*ness, n. - NARROW-MINDED
Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n. - CARNAL-MINDED
Worldly-minded. - FREE-MINDED
Not perplexed; having a mind free from care. Bacon. - HIGH-MINDED
1. Proud; arrogant. Be not high-minded, but fear. Rom. xi. 20. 2. Having, or characterized by, honorable pride; of or pertaining to elevated principles and feelings; magnanimous; -- opposed to mean. High-minded, manly recognition of those truths. - RIGHT-MINDED
Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.