like-minded
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of like-minded
1520–30; like 1 + minded ( def. 1 )
Explanation
When people are like-minded, they share similar opinions or preferences. If you’re really into kittens but all your friends like dogs, go to the cat show to meet like-minded people. Then you can chat about kittens all day long. Like-minded people stick together. If you love jousting, you might go to a Renaissance Faire to meet like-minded people. If you love Henry VIII, you might find like-minded friends to eat giant turkey legs with. If most of the citizens of your city agree about politics, it won't be surprising that your like-minded mayor is easily re-elected. Like-minded people get along.
Example Sentences
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The movement took root in the early 1980s when Brain, his wife Lynne and small group of like-minded Christian friends joined St Thomas's church in Crookes.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
In a WSJ interview, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says like-minded countries must work together to ensure sovereignty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Instead he suggested like-minded nations should club together to create a new form of multilateral global governance in an increasingly turbulent world where – in the minds of some others - might is right.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
But “you’d sit there in this auditorium with all these like-minded humans — and remember, there was no way to reach each other then. There’s no internet — and suddenly you weren’t alone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Those meetings introduced him to an even more promising pool of like-minded Christians, the New Canaan Group, a Friday morning prayer breakfast typically attended by more than a hundred investment bankers and other professionals.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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