Open-minded means willing to consider ideas you do not hold. Keep an open mind, an open-minded approach, remarkably open-minded.
It is not the same as having no view — being open-minded means holding a view while accepting that evidence could change it. The old joke that a mind can be so open the brain falls out is aimed at the confusion between the two.
1adjectiveopen-mindedWilling to consider ideas you do not hold.
“Try to be open-minded about the new teaching methods before you judge them.”
open-minded is a quality of thought.
Open plus minded. The compound describes a mind not closed to what it has not already accepted.
From open + minded.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Moods & Relationships, Logic & Argument