mindread
mindread verb: to read someone's mind.
Verb
mindread (third-person singular simple present mindreads, present participle mindreading, simple past and past participle mindread)
- To read someone's mind.
- In contrast, she mindreads with a negative bias--"clearly (sic) he thinks."1988 June 3, Rose Ann Chasman, “Unacceptable Level of Omissions”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2020
- A similar point applies to the mindreading of fictional characters, as when one mindreads a character in a novel.2006, Alvin I. Goldman, Simulating Minds, →ISBN, page 103
Forms of mindread
| third-person singular present | mindreads |
|---|---|
| present participle | mindreading |
| past participle | mindread |
| past | mindread |
Origin of mindread
From mind + read.
Questions about mindread
- What does mindread mean?
- Mindread means to read someone's mind.
- What part of speech is mindread?
- Mindread is a verb.
- What is the past tense of mindread?
- The past tense of mindread is mindread.
Words near mindread in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mindread (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “mindread.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mindread. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.