Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

civic-minded

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables: civic--mind-ed
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Concerned about and supportive of policies and practices that serve the interests of society.

Example Sentences

""You have to teach ‘Blessed are the civic-minded, for they shall profit by their civism.’""
"[W]hen the "H.O.V. lane" is activated . . . a lane is reserved for these civic-minded, traffic-reducing car poolers."
"Civic-minded techies are increasingly bringing Web 2.0 to political activism, developing new watchdog tools that open up congressional machinery for ordinary citizens to scrutinize and critique."

Inflected Forms

more civic-minded (comparative) most civic-minded (superlative)

Phrases

civic-mindedly civic-mindedness

Frequently Paired Words

civism

Questions

What does civic-minded mean?: Concerned about and supportive of policies and practices that serve the interests of society.

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