mindful

English

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Etymology

From Middle English myndeful, myndefull, from Old English ġemyndful (of good memory), equivalent to mind + -ful.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmʌɪndfəl/

Adjective

mindful (comparative more mindful, superlative most mindful)

  1. Being aware (of something); attentive, heedful. [from 14th c.]
    • 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:
      Alex McLeish, perhaps mindful of the flak he has been taking from sections of the Villa support for a perceived negative style of play, handed starts to wingers Charles N'Zogbia and Albrighton.
  2. (obsolete) Inclined (to do something). [16th-19th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.5:
      These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].

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Further reading

  • mindful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • mindful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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