mind /mīnd/

1. The state of thought and feeling
2. Wits, right senses, sanity
3. Consciousness
4. Intellect
5. That which thinks, knows, feels, and wills
6. Inclination
7. Attention
8. Direction of the will
9. Soul
10. Personality
11. A thinking or directing person
12. Memory
13. Commemoration (archaic or RC)
14. Record, mention (obsolete)
15. Thought
16. Judgement
17. Opinion
18. Purpose (Shakespeare and Milton)

1. To attend to
2. To tend, have care or oversight of
3. To be careful about
4. To beware of
5. To remind (archaic and Scot)
6. To bring to mind (Spenser)
7. To remember (Scot)
8. (reflexive) to remember (with of; archaic)
9. To purpose (Shakespeare)
10. To have a mind to (dialect)
11. To apply oneself to
12. To be troubled by, object to, dislike
13. To notice (obsolete or dialect)

1. To attend
2. To care
3. To look out, take heed
4. To be troubled, object
5. To remember (with of; dialect)

Be careful, watch out

mindˈed adjective

1. Inclined
2. Disposed

Denoting having a mind of a specified kind or inclination

-mindedness combining form

Denoting inclination

mindˈer noun

1. A person who minds a machine, child, etc
2. A bodyguard, orig and esp of a criminal (slang)
3. An aide or adviser employed by a public figure, esp to manage publicity (informal)
4. A child left to be minded (archaic)
5. A short wooden stick used by a child to propel a hoop

mindˈful adjective

1. Bearing in mind
2. Taking thought or care
3. Attentive
4. Observant
5. Having memory (archaic)
6. Inclined (obsolete)

mindˈfully adverb

mindˈfulness noun

A method of reducing stress by developing awareness of one's own mental condition and focusing the attention on the present

mindˈing noun (Scot)

1. A memory, something recalled
2. A usu small gift, to mark an occasion or in remembrance of the giver

mindˈless adjective

1. Without mind
2. Senseless, without reason
3. Unmindful

mindˈlessly adverb

mindˈlessness noun

mindˈ-altering adjective

(of a drug) causing violent changes of mood and behaviour

mindˈ-bender noun

A brainteaser, a puzzle

mindˈ-bending adjective

1. Mind-boggling
2. Forcing the mind to unwonted effort, teasing the brain
3. Permanently inclining the mind towards certain beliefs, etc

mindˈ-blowing adjective

1. (of a drug) producing a state of ecstasy
2. (of an experience, etc) producing a similar state, exhilarating
3. Astonishing

mindˈ-blowingly adverb

mind-bodˈy adjective

Relating to or designating the connection between the mind and the physical body

mindˈ-boggling adjective

1. Astonishing
2. Incomprehensible

mindˈ-bogglingly adverb

mindˈ-cure or mindˈ-healing noun

The cure or healing of mental or physical illness through the mind or by the supposed influence of another's mind

mindˈ-curer or mindˈ-healer noun

mindˈ-expanding adjective

(of a drug) causing heightened perception, psychedelic

mindˈfuck noun (vulgar sl)

1. An exhilarating experience
2. A sense or state of euphoria

mind mapping noun

A technique for stimulating and organizing one's thoughts by writing down key concepts and linking them with lines to show the relationships between them

mindˈ-numbing adjective (informal)

Causing extreme boredom

mindˈ-numblingly adverb

mindˈ-reader noun

A thought-reader, a psychic

mindˈ-reading noun

mindˈset noun

(a fixed) attitude or habit of mind

mind's eye noun

Visual imagination, mental view, contemplation

mind-your-own-busˈiness noun

A Mediterranean plant (Helxine soleirolii) of the nettle family, having small, roundish leaves and producing tiny flowers (also called baby's-tears)

absence of mind

Inattention to what is going on owing to absorption of the mind in other things

bear in mind see under bear¹

blow one's or someone's mind see under blow¹

break one's mind (obsolete)

To make known, confide or divulge one's thoughts

cast one's mind back

To think about, try to recall past events, etc

change one's mind

To come to a new resolution or opinion

cross someone's mind see under cross

do you mind?

1. An interjection expressing annoyance or disagreement
2. (also would you mind?) do you object?

have a good or (archaic) great mind (to)

To wish or to be inclined strongly (to)

have a mind of one's own

To be strong-willed and independent, unwilling to be persuaded or dissuaded by others

have half a mind (to)

To be somewhat inclined (to)

if you don't mind

If you have no objection

in (or of) two minds

Wavering, undecided

know one's own mind

1. To be sure of one's intentions and opinions
2. To be self-assured

make up one's mind

To come to a decision

mind one's p's and q's

To be watchfully accurate and punctilious

• decimation
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• decimator
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• decimeter
• decimeters
• decimetre
• decimetres
• decinormal
• decipher
• decipherabilities
• decipherability
• decipherable
• deciphered
• decipherer
• decipherers
• deciphering
• decipherment
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• deciphers
• decision
• decisions
• decision support system
• decision support systems
• decision table