Dictionary

unmindful en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle English unmyndefull; equivalent to un- + mindful.

Meanings

1. Lacking awareness; oblivious.
   • It agrees that redundant services should not be continued but is not unmindful of the fact that too much retrenchment of rail services now may ultimately prove detrimental to the economy of the country. 1955 June, “Notes and News: Redundant Branches and Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 434:
2. (often, with-of) Failing to remember, recognize, or pay attention to something; heedless.
   • For either they be puffed vp vvith pride, / Or fraught vvith enuie that their galls do ſvvell, / Or they their dayes to ydleneſſe diuide, / Or drovvnded lie in pleaſures vvaſtefull vvell, / In vvhich like Moldvvarps [i.e., moles] nouſling ſtill they lurke, / Vnmyndfull of chiefe parts of manlineſſe, / And do themſelues for vvant of other vvorke, / Vaine votaries of laeſie loue profeſſe, […] 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso:
   • We believe that it is in this spoken world, where people engage in phatic communion and indulge in the give-and-take of interpersonal socialising and the negotiation of personality, identity, friendship and connection, largely unmindful of institutional goals or language policies and politics, that one can best get a view of language vitality. 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 8:
   • unmindful of his promise

Forms

Antonyms

mindful · mindful · thoughtful · heedful

Coordinates

absent-minded · mindless · thoughtless · absent-minded

Relateds

unmindfulness · unmindfully

Translations (3)

bg небрежен (Lacking awareness) · bg нехаен (Lacking awareness) · mi mākū(w)are (Lacking awareness)