Meanings
comparative more unmindful · superlative most unmindful
- 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 434Antonyms: mindful
- oftenwith ofFailing to remember, recognize, or pay attention to something; heedless.
unmindful of his promise
2 more examples
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1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, versoWe 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 8Antonyms: heedful, mindful, thoughtful
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveLacking awareness; oblivious.
adjectiveFailing to remember, recognize, or pay attention to something; heedless.
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(followed by ‘to’ or ‘of’) lacking conscious awareness of
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishunmyndefull
- Englishunmindful
From Middle English unmyndefull; equivalent to un- + mindful.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian небрежен, нехаен
- небрежен (nebrežen)Lacking awareness
- нехаен (nehaen)Lacking awareness
Māori mākū(w)are
- mākū(w)areLacking awareness
Cite this entry
unmindful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmindful
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