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What is "like-minded"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
like-minded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
like-minded individuals (=people who share the same opinions)
▪ The message board is a forum where like-minded individuals can communicate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
people
▪ This proved a vain hope, as the young student soon acquired a following of like-minded people.
▪ Teams build lasting networks throughout an organization, because everyone gets to know like-minded people in other departments.
▪ It's proven that being surrounded by like-minded people is itself inspirational.
▪ More like-minded people can be found on other Web sites.
▪ It is also an excellent way to meet like-minded people and try out new venues.
▪ Clare felt cheered to be back among like-minded people, doing something worth while.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Being with like-minded people makes my job much more enjoyable.
▪ She convinced a group of like-minded friends to join her trekking in the Himalayas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Britain's role in the Berlin air-lift earned her the accolade of a staunch and like-minded ally.
▪ Cross, aggressive mares often rear like-minded foals.
▪ He hopes the meeting will help him and like-minded clergy who've found themselves in a religious dilemma.
▪ It's proven that being surrounded by like-minded people is itself inspirational.
▪ Poverty, chastity and obedience were the rules of his order which he founded with eleven like-minded companions when he was twenty-nine.
▪ You set out your stall in an appropriate area full of like-minded folk.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Like-minded

Like-minded \Like"-mind`ed\ (l[imac]k"m[imac]nd`[e^]d), a. Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind.
--Tillotson.

Wiktionary
like-minded

a. Of similar opinion, given to holding similar opinions.

WordNet
like-minded

adj. of the same turn of mind

Usage examples of "like-minded".

The jostling and buffeting in a place like this made it ideal for snatching purses and picking pockets, especially working with a team of like-minded souls, but, apart from his thirst, his luck having turned so sour today, he was in no mood for it.

As nearly as I can remember the prime perpetrators were Don Wollheim, Johnny Michel, Bob Lowndes and myself, but we quickly acquired a couple of dozen other like-minded actifans and writer wannabees, and among them was a pudgy, acerbic fourteen-year-old from the far northern reaches of Manhattan whose name was Cyril Kornbluth.

A few years after my PhD, in the mid-1960s, I joined a small group of like-minded physiologists, anatomists and psychologists to establish the first neuroscience society in Britain - perhaps the world: the Brain Research Association.

He no longer thought of finding like-minded folk amongst his fellow exiles, and had given up his vague dream of fomenting rebellion.

Though Flynn claimed to have spotted a few like-minded souls among the junior officers.

Washington might be able to assemble a small coalition of like-minded states willing to join in such a new sanctions regime to prevent the further erosion of the military embargo and financial controls on Iraq.

But Denali had also become a popular vacation resort, first appealing mainly to Human Polity winter-sports fans (including the famous Remillard clan of New Hamp­shire) and later attracting hordes of like-minded Poltroyans as well.

But as birds of a feather flock together, Madame and the Dauphine, the maid, and a few other like-minded women had formed a little clique centered upon the Private Cabinet of the Dauphine’.

I had the impression of shadows, ranked behind him in the electronic dark, as if Peter was just a front for a whole network of densely interconnected, like-minded obsessives, all working for ends I didn’t understand.

It could be recited in coteries of like-minded people, both for entertainment and to afford relief from oppression through private derision of pharisaically maintained dogmas.

Without knowing who he was, I found him a like-minded soul at the daily physics department coffee breaks when I was still a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego in the mid-1960s.

But when she touched down at White Mountain Airport she found bright sunshine, fresh powder, and a throng of like-minded ski nuts overflowing the resort town, all determined to await Gabriel's trump schussing their brains out.

Gerry would want to test the waters of his theory about the need to out the vampires to see if he could find like-minded monsters.