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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unmindful

late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + mindful (adj.).

Wiktionary
unmindful

a. 1 lacking awareness; oblivious 2 failing to remember or recognize something; heedless

WordNet
unmindful
  1. adj. not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw [syn: forgetful, mindless] [ant: mindful]

  2. (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of; "oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility" [syn: oblivious(p), unmindful(p)]

Usage examples of "unmindful".

Will stomped back outside, traipsing through leafy shrubs and prickly hedges, unmindful of any damage to the greenery.

Whilst his hours were passed in studious retirement, the empress, resolute to achieve the generous design which she had undertaken, was not unmindful of the care of his fortune.

He was also unmindful of the fire in the boulder-lined hearth that burned ceaselessly, unfuelled, the flames flickering with strange colours.

Blow up the first icecraft, or ten, unmindful of the countless sleeping innocents you thus consign to die.

In half a minute, netted securely, Kiel and Kinnor slept unmindful of their strange bedroom.

Her consciousness drowned equally with his in the passionate fulfilment -- Ty was not unmindful of motivation in his surrogates -- but meanwhile her three tongues, as well as inner and outer skin, returned a great deal of data to the knowledge collectors in the Ty-Laurie overmind.

He imagined her naked, the play of muscles rippling her haunches, and this so enflamed him that he started to pace, unmindful of the fact that the creaking boards were signaling his presence.

The tiny figure of Ca stepped nonchalantly out into the shadow of the Sen-Danna Wall, apparently unmindful of the manacles on his wrists and i steel bilboes that held his ankles.

Davis found it necessary to include Damaris, unmindful that Bradford names her in his list of MAY-FLOWER passengers.

Caralie yelled, unmindful of the curious stares from the other diners.

The only exception was Calis, who stood a short distance away, unmindful of the chill.

The Shoshonees, unmindful of the sacredness of this embassy, had killed the young warriors and had invited the battle which immediately took place, in which the Chopunnish killed forty-two of the Shoshonees, to get even for the wanton killing of their three young men.

Now, recognizing what is expected of me, and not unmindful of my promise, and relying, too, on the same succor, I will endeavor to treat of the origin, and progress, and deserved destinies of the two cities (the earthly and the heavenly, to wit), which, as we said, are in this present world commingled, and as it were entangled together.

Therefore, if you present all this world before her, with the richest of its treasures, she disregards it and cares not for it, and is unmindful of any pain or affliction.

She begins to cover his face with kisses, unmindful of anything else the room, the circumstances, Marinville standing behind her in the doorway.