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unmindful

unmindful adjective: lacking awareness; oblivious.

Adjective

unmindful (comparative more unmindful, superlative most unmindful)

  1. Lacking awareness; oblivious.
    • It agrees that redundant services should not be continued but is not unmindful of the fact that too much retrenchment of rail services now may ultimately prove detrimental to the economy of the country.1955 June, “Notes and News: Redundant Branches and Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 434
    Antonyms:
    mindful
  2. (often, with-of) Failing to remember, recognize, or pay attention to something; heedless.
    • unmindful of his promise
    • 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...1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso

unmindful meaning in Tamil and Urdu

unmindful in Tamil

பொருட்படுத்தாத, பாட்டுக்கு

unmindful in Urdu

بےپرواہ, غافل, متغافل

Antonyms of unmindful

Forms of unmindful

comparativemore unmindful
superlativemost unmindful

Origin of unmindful

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

Questions about unmindful

What does unmindful mean?
Unmindful means lacking awareness; oblivious.
What is unmindful in Tamil?
Unmindful in Tamil is பொருட்படுத்தாத, பாட்டுக்கு. See Unmindful meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unmindful?
Unmindful is an adjective.

Words near unmindful in the dictionary

  1. unminable
  2. unminced
  3. unmincing
  4. unmind
  5. unminded
  6. unmindful
  7. unmindfullness
  8. unmindfully
  9. unmindfulness
  10. unminding
  11. unminds

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