Unmindful
[ʌn'maɪn(d)fʊl;-f(ə)l] or [ʌn'maɪndfəl]
Definition
(adj.) not mindful or attentive; 'while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled'- G.B.Shaw .
Typed by Elvin--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Careless, inattentive, heedless, regardless, unobservant, negligent, forgetful, mindless, not mindful.
Edited by Eva
Examples
- She seated herself beside her uncle opposite to Will, and was evidently preoccupied with something that made her almost unmindful of him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was never unmindful of Agnes, and she never left that sanctuary in my thoughts--if I may call it so--where I had placed her from the first. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He who hath proportioned and given proper quantities to all things, was not unmindful of this. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The United States, not unmindful of the advantages of an Isthmian Canal, had from time to time, made surveys of the various routes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When have you found me unmindful of your lessons? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am glad, Volumnia, repeats Sir Leicester, unmindful of these mollifying sentiments, that you do mean what a pity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A few there were, who seemed unmindful of him, and looked only to the jury, in impatient wonder how they could delay. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- No other person upon earth, save herself, could have been so unmindful of her wants. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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