unmindful

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adjective

Lacking awareness; oblivious.

“unmindful of his promise”

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Meanings

adjectiveunmindful (comparative more unmindful, superlative most unmindful)

comparative more unmindful · superlative most unmindful

  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

    Antonyms: mindful

  2. oftenwith ofFailing to remember, recognize, or pay attention to something; heedless.

    unmindful of his promise

    2 more examples

    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

    Antonyms: heedful, mindful, thoughtful

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveLacking awareness; oblivious.

Opposite

adjectiveFailing to remember, recognize, or pay attention to something; heedless.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivenot mindful or attentive

Opposite

adjective(followed by ‘to’ or ‘of’) lacking conscious awareness of

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishunmyndefull
  2. Englishunmindful

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

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Translations

Bulgarian небрежен, нехаен
  • небрежен (nebrežen)Lacking awareness
  • нехаен (nehaen)Lacking awareness
Māori mākū(w)are
  • mākū(w)areLacking awareness
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmindful,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmindful.

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