mindful
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 7
/ˈmaɪnd.fl̩/
Definition of mindful
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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aware (of something); attentive, heedful.
“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.”
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adj
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aware (of something); attentive, heedful.
“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.”
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Of or pertaining to mindfulness; sustaining meta-attention of the contents of one's own mind in the present moment.
“I think being mindful may help you to appreciate life more.”
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(obsolete)Inclined (to do something).
“These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].”
noun
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As much as can be held in one's mind at a time.
“A work of art may exceed a 'mindful' – whatever it is that can be accommodated within a mind at a given time – and may have to be regarded as a series of mindfuls.”
“So, whereas mouthfuls and servings are the units of fullness, mindfuls and savorings are the units of mind-fullness.”
“A sketch can hold several mindfuls, allowing designers to see far more than they can imagine, allowing designers to integrate mindfuls.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English myndeful, myndefull, from Old English ġemyndful (“of good memory”), equivalent to mind + -ful.
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