MINDFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mindful mean? 

• MINDFUL (adjective)
  The adjective MINDFUL has 1 sense:

1. bearing in mind; attentive to

  Familiarity information: MINDFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINDFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bearing in mind; attentive to

Synonyms:

aware; mindful

Context example:

mindful of these criticisms, I shall attempt to justify my action

Similar:

careful; heedful (cautiously attentive)

evocative; redolent; remindful; reminiscent; resonant (serving to bring to mind)

Attribute:

heedfulness; mindfulness (the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities)

Antonym:

unmindful (not mindful or attentive)

Derivation:

mindfulness (the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities)

 Context examples 

The researchers found that while students reported being less stressed while they were on their feet and moving, they received an even greater benefit when they reported also being more mindful.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For my own part, mindful of my mother’s advice, I carefully brushed the dust from my clothes and made myself as neat as possible.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then it made me twenty times more wretched, to know how unselfishly mindful she was of me, and how selfishly mindful I was of myself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When the gentlemen rose to go away, Mrs. Bennet was mindful of her intended civility, and they were invited and engaged to dine at Longbourn in a few days time.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Charles, being somewhat more mindful of the probabilities of the case, only nodded in reply, and walked away.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A type of meditation based on the concept of being “mindful,” or having increased awareness, of the present.

(Mindfulness relaxation, NCI Dictionary)

A regular snow maiden, with blue eyes, and yellow hair curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and always carrying herself like a young lady mindful of her manners.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I say this fully mindful that Mercury will still be retrograde until November 20, so hopefully, the promise you make is a little one, not one that is overly serious and legally binding.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I doubt not, Terlake, that you will show yourself a worthy son of a valiant father; and you, Ford, of yours; and you, Edricson, that you are mindful of the old-time house from which all men know that you are sprung.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Exhausted by emotion, my language was more subdued than it generally was when it developed that sad theme; and mindful of Helen's warnings against the indulgence of resentment, I infused into the narrative far less of gall and wormwood than ordinary.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)