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unminded en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + minded.

Meanings

1. To which no attention is paid; ignored, unheeded.
   • Bathsheba had too much sense to mind seriously what her servitors said about her; but too much womanly redundance of speech to leave alone what was said till it died the natural death of unminded things. 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
   • Whatever, unknown or unminded by others, wanders by night through the labyrinth of the heart"--that he must transmit to the hearer; he must allow the listener to share with him the gift of "being able to give expression to his suffering." 1913, Charles Wharton Stork, The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,:
2. Not wanting to do something; uninclined.
   • […] that he had not elected English literature, that he had already wasted too much brain tissue on the question, and that he was unminded to waste any more! 1958, Robert Kimball Richardson, Helen Louisa Drew Richardson, Robert Kimball Richardson, 1876-1952, page 88:

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