unminded

English

Etymology

un- + minded

Adjective

unminded (comparative more unminded, superlative most unminded)

  1. To which no attention is paid; ignored, unheeded.
    • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. [], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., [], →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1913, Charles Wharton Stork, The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,:
      Whatever, unknown or unminded by others, wanders by night through the labyrinth of the heart"--that he must transmit to the hearer; he must allow the listener to share with him the gift of "being able to give expression to his suffering."
  2. Not wanting to do something; uninclined.
    • 1958, Robert Kimball Richardson, Helen Louisa Drew Richardson, Robert Kimball Richardson, 1876-1952, page 88:
      [] 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!
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