mindful

English

Alternative forms

• mindefull, mindfull (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /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”, 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 […].

Antonyms

• mindless
• seat-of-the-pants

Derived terms

• mindfulness

Translations

bearing in mind

• Finnish: jostakin tietoinen, jonkin huomioon ottava
• French: conscient (fr)
• Latin: memor (la)

• Old English: ġemyndiġ (ang)
• Scottish Gaelic: cùramach (gd)

External links

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