unmindful

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English

Etymology

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

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Adjective

unmindful (comparative more unmindful, superlative most unmindful)

  1. Lacking awareness; oblivious.
    Antonym: mindful
    Coordinate terms: absent-minded, thoughtless
  2. Failing to remember, recognize, or pay attention to something; heedless of.
    Antonyms: heedful, mindful, thoughtful
    Coordinate terms: absent-minded, mindless
    unmindful of his promise
    • 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: T C for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso:
      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, []
    • 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:
      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.

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