in their right minds

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   behaving responsibly

   Synonymsin his right mindin her right mind

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Questions about in their right minds

What does in their right minds mean?

in their right minds means "behaving responsibly".

What is another word for in their right minds?

Close synonyms include in his right mind, in her right mind. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in their right minds a common word?

in their right minds is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.