Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Attentive; heedful: always mindful of family responsibilities. See Synonyms at careful.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Taking thought or care; heedful; thoughtful.
- Having knowledge, remembrance, or recognition; cognizant; aware.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. bearing in mind; attentive to
Etymologies
- From Middle English myndeful, from Old English ġemyndful ("of good memory"), equivalent to mind + -ful. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'll like to propose the term "mindful eating" which may help clarify.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Susan Albers: Ooey Gooey Butter Cake, Paula Deen and Mindful Eating
“You may have heard the term mindful eating, which is basically the act of focusing on your food when you eat.”
“Google the word "mindful" and you'll find about 24,900,000 entries.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Kaiser Greenland: The Role of Mindfulness in Education
“It was wrong because I am so fortunate, and I need to remain mindful of, and grateful for, that fortune.”
“The National Organizations conclude their filing with a succinct call to action for the FCC: "... the Commission [should] remain mindful that any new rules or regulatory structures that emerge ... should help to close the digital divide and spread the economic and social benefits of broadband adoption to minority communities.”
The Huffington Post: David Honig: A Decisive Moment for Broadband Internet Access
“But let's remain mindful of the real human cost of wanton destruction.”
“I think you'll find the opposite is true: He did indeed speak to his patients, and instruct them in mindful awareness techniques to help them with their urges.”
“I will make every effort to remain mindful and remember people such as your granddaughter as I carry out my work on behalf of our community.”
Apologies : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
“The practice of watching one’s breath is called mindful breathing because you are attempting to be mindful of each breath as a way to focus your mind and pull it away from being scattered.”
“Google the word mindful and you ll find about 24,900,000 entries.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Kaiser Greenland: The Healing Power of Mindfulness
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mindful’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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Here and Now
Words related to the mental state of "being in the present in the moment".
improvisation, nolens volens, extempore, autoschediastic, in medias res, willy-nilly, egersis, immanence, nunc pro tunc, spontaneity, observant, concentration and 55 more...
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Sober/Stately/Steady
resolute, unfaltering, deliberate, resolved, circumspect, thoughtful, intent, earnest, ardent, intense, sedulous, laborious and 138 more...
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
My fellow citizens: I stand here ...we did not turn b..., when we were tested, what storms may come, icy currents, virtue, hope, alarmed, depth of winter, revolution, snow, enemy, abandoned and 257 more...
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_mark's keywords ™
words that describe me or that i am focusing on.
( personal list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/personas--2<...satirical, dark, enigmatic, androgyny, appreciative, opinionated, inquisitive, sensitive, nonchalant, acerbic, scientific, circumspective and 229 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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eye-ful(l)
eyeful, I-ful, i beamful, eifel
reckful, soulful, awful, aweful, presentful, nowful, mindful, zestful, apful, fruitful, tankful, thankful and 62 more...
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my dictionary
palatial, immaculate, sleep-deprived, Kleptocracy, customs brokerage, parochial, stagnation, egregious, rife, interdict, unassuming, extortion and 81 more...
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hydragenic's Words
zeitgeist, iterative, cherish, elephantine, slogan, territory, wapentake, mindful, luxurexia, endorphin, obsidian, lugubrious and 6 more...
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ErinDowding's Words
fester, delicate, mindful, hateful, saveur, trash, creep, picky, roundabout, busted
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