unmindful
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English unmyndefull; equivalent to un- + mindful.
Adjective[edit]
unmindful (comparative more unmindful, superlative most unmindful)
- Lacking awareness; oblivious.
- Antonym: mindful
- Coordinate terms: absent-minded, thoughtless
- 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[homas] C[reede] 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, , 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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Translations[edit]
Lacking awareness
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