Unminded

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    To which no attention is paid; ignored, unheeded.

    "Bathsheba had too much sense to mind seriously what her servitors said about her; but too much womanly redundance of speech to leave alone what was said till it died the natural death of unminded things."

  2. 2
    Not wanting to do something; uninclined.

    "[…] that he had not elected English literature, that he had already wasted too much brain tissue on the question, and that he was unminded to waste any more!"

Example

More examples

"Bathsheba had too much sense to mind seriously what her servitors said about her; but too much womanly redundance of speech to leave alone what was said till it died the natural death of unminded things."

Etymology

From un- + minded.

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