Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Failing to give due care or attention; inattentive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not mindful; not heedful; not attentive: regardless; heedless; careless; as, unmindful of laws; unmindful of health or of duty.
- Synonyms Careless, inattentive (to), heedless, unobservant, negligent, forgetful, unheedful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective lacking
awareness ;oblivious - adjective failing to
remember orrecognize a fact
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not mindful or attentive
- adjective (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of
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Examples
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But so unmindful is she of her own interest, that she seems in part to have lost her very being, so forgetful is she of herself.
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According to the union, while it is not "unmindful" of GuySuCo's financial challenges, it has noted the lengthy list chronicling mismanagement by the Sugar Corporation, which GAWU submitted in its Memorandum to the Arbitration Panel.
Stabroek News 2009
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"unmindful" was printed as "unmindul" of gauging the quantity of water traveling along an important drain
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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She kept the end in her hand as she turned to Alexander and wrapped it around him, unmindful of the white flames that licked her arms as she reached behind him.
Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011
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He seemed to be furiously attacking a tissue with a pen, unmindful of the fresh cuts and bruises on his arm.
Sanguine Pizza 2009
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The steady decline in our democratic culture, sinking to new levels of vulgarity, does unite neocons with traditional conservatives – though not with those libertarian conservatives who are conservative in economics but unmindful of the culture ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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And she had a smile in her eyes, and a laugh on her lips; and her temper was not hasty, nor was she unmindful that men give the law and women ever obey.
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"The Court is not unmindful of the State's dilemma; it is caught between the proverbial rock and hard place," Maricopa County Superior Court Judge J.
Arizona Is Ordered to Allow Pot Sales Tamara Audi 2012
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We dashed across the open spaces and down the slopes unmindful of possible snakes in the grass, until we reached the woods.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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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 2010
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