Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
open-minded \open-minded\ adj. Ready to entertain new ideas. Contrasted with closed-minded. [Narrower terms: {broad-minded (vs. narrow-minded), broadminded, broad ]
Syn: open.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Willing to consider new and different ideas or opinions. 2 bisexual
WordNet
adj. ready to entertain new ideas; "an open-minded curiosity"; "open-minded impartiality"
Usage examples of "open-minded".
However, the notion that the principles of scientific materialism, unlike traditional religious beliefs, are evidently true to all open-minded, intelligent people is nothing more than propaganda.
An extraordinary quality of these meetings has been the open-minded yet critical attitude of the Buddhists and the scientists, both eager to expand their horizons by learning of the methods of inquiry and the insights of the other.
It seems that once we invaded thesanctuary of these upwardly mobile females, how-ever, they was open-minded enough to give us107 108 Robert Asprin serious consideration in their own deliberations.
In an open-minded person the expansion of the energy can be tremendous, whereas closed-minded people literally draw their minds in so that not only are they unreceptive to new ideas but they have also cut themselves off from the ability to attune to other people and even to nature.
The problem cries out for a long-term, open-minded and systematic search, with nature as the only arbiter of what is or is not likely.
It occurred to me that Mwabao Mawa would not be quite so open-minded about finding a man in her bed as she expected me to be about finding a woman in mine.
The War Office has been fairly open-minded and helpful, but I think it is true to say that the higher ranks within the Home Guard have fought steadily against a realistic view of war and that all experimentation and attempts at serious training have been due to proddings from below.
Americans in the eighties and nineties had prided themselves on their openness about sex, but to Ivan those open-minded Americans seemed like prudes compared to the ribald—or downright lewd—comments, gestures, and charades that surrounded him and Katerina as they led a huge troop of villagers to the king's house.
And while the science fiction audience is much more open-minded about the future than any professional scientist, they will still turn against stories that betray an ignorance or disdain of accepted scientific fact.