unmindful

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

unmindful (comparative more unmindful, superlative most unmindful)

1. Lacking awareness; oblivious.

   Antonym: mindful

   Coordinate terms: absent-minded, thoughtless

2. 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, →DOI, 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.

Related terms

• unmindfulness
• unmindfully

Translations

Lacking awareness

• Bulgarian: небрежен (bg) (nebrežen), нехаен (bg) (nehaen)
• Maori: mākū(w)are