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mindly

mindly adjective: of or relating to the mind; mental.

Adjective

mindly (comparative more mindly, superlative most mindly)

  1. Of or relating to the mind; mental
    • My body has a mindly quality—and a mind or consciousness of its own and an ability to calculate.2013, Harold Brodkey, The Runaway Soul
    • I view in the eyes of all older persons I've seen gathered... of questions with no answers to find ... or of how to escape a mindly body that has been battered ... or of ways of mending the mind.2015, D. Russell Walker, Down Life's Trail

Forms of mindly

comparativemore mindly
superlativemost mindly

Origin of mindly

From Middle English myndly, myendly (“mindful; mental”), equivalent to mind + -ly.

Questions about mindly

What does mindly mean?
Mindly means of or relating to the mind; mental.
What part of speech is mindly?
Mindly is an adjective.

Words near mindly in the dictionary

  1. mindlessnesses
  2. mindlike
  3. mindlink
  4. mindlinks
  5. mindlock
  6. mindly
  7. mindmap
  8. mindmapped
  9. mindmapping
  10. mindmaps
  11. mindmeld

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