motor-minded

[ moh-ter-mahyn-did ]

adjective

1. disposed to perceive one's environment in terms of mechanical or muscular activity.

Other Words From

• motor-minded·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of motor-minded¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

All the "wild" trees in the world produced less than 40,000 tons last year, less than a month's supply if the motor-minded U. S. got it all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Somewhere else among the Dean's motor-minded messages upon Good & Evil there occurs the traffic-signal metaphor that gives the work its title.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the turn of the century when the harness business dwindled, his shop became "Dunhill Motorities." selling linen dusters, leather breeches, goggles, veils and gauntlets to motor-minded lords & ladies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A writer of a method article in a recent issue of The Sunday School Times related an incident of a chap whom he described as "a motor-minded boy."

From Project Gutenberg

May God's rich blessing rest upon the pages of this book as it takes a deserved place in the libraries of lovers of Motor-minded, Jehu-driving boys.

From Project Gutenberg