UNMINDFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unmindful mean? 

• UNMINDFUL (adjective)
  The adjective UNMINDFUL has 2 senses:

1. not mindful or attentive

2. (followed by 'to' or 'of') lacking conscious awareness of

  Familiarity information: UNMINDFUL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNMINDFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not mindful or attentive

Synonyms:

forgetful; mindless; unmindful

Context example:

while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled

Similar:

amnesiac; amnesic (suffering from a partial loss of memory)

Attribute:

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

Antonym:

mindful (bearing in mind; attentive to)

Derivation:

unmindfulness (the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(followed by 'to' or 'of') lacking conscious awareness of

Synonyms:

oblivious; unmindful

Context example:

not unmindful of the heavy responsibility

Similar:

incognizant; unaware ((often followed by 'of') not aware)

Derivation:

unmindfulness (the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities)

 Context examples 

I was never unmindful of Agnes, and she never left that sanctuary in my thoughts—if I may call it so—where I had placed her from the first.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With a desperation that was madness, unmindful of the pain, he hurried up the slope to the crest of the hill over which his comrade had disappeared—more grotesque and comical by far than that limping, jerking comrade.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But, my dear Sir, though estranged (by the force of circumstances over which I have had no control) from the personal society of the friend and companion of my youth, I have not been unmindful of his soaring flight.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)