mindful
English
Alternative forms
- mindefull, mindfull (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English myndeful, myndefull, from Old English ġemyndful (“of good memory”), equivalent to mind + -ful.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmʌɪndfəl/
Adjective
mindful (comparative more mindful, superlative most mindful)
- Being aware (of something); attentive, heedful. [from 14th c.]
- (obsolete) Inclined (to do something). [16th-19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.5:
- These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.5:
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
bearing in mind
Further reading
- mindful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- mindful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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