20. care, care about [s.t.], care one way or the other, feel concern about; object to, disapprove of, look askance at, condemn; have any objection to, feel inconvenienced
or annoyed by, get disturbed by, be offended by; dislike, disrelish, have no taste for, disdain, turn up one's nose at, have an aversion to, detest, loathe, abhor, despise, hate; eschew, avoid, steer clear of, refuse to touch with a 10-foot pole; shun, shy away from, recoil from, shrink from, shudder at.
21. never mind disregard [s.t.], pay no attention to [s.t.], strike or cancel [s.t.] from one's mind, forget it; don't give [s.t.] a thought or think twice about it, don't bother. minded, adj. disposed, inclined, tending toward, leaning toward, of a mind, in the mood; desirous, willing, ready, enthusiastic, eager, keen; determined, resolved, bent upon, intending, aiming, designing, planning.
mindful, adj. 1. Usu.
mindful of attentive, observant, regardful, noticing, open-eyed, alert, wide-awake, sharp, alive to, Inf. on the job; listening, all ears, advertent, Archaic, attent; heedful, obedient, compliant, respectful.
2. Usu.
mindful of careful, cautious, wary, chary, guarded, on guard, watchful, aware, on the lookout, on the qui vive, vigilant; prudent, circumspect, thoughtful, considerate, astute, shrewd, wise, Scot. canny; prepared, ready, on one's toes, provident, precaution.
mindless, adj. 1. senseless, nonsensical, insensate, brainless, witless, empty-headed, Brit. Inf. gormless, Rare, insulse; unintelligent, dull, dull-witted, dim-witted, slow, slow-witted, half-witted, weak-minded, weak-headed, feeble-minded, retarded, imbecilic, Inf. dopey, Inf. dill, Inf moronic, Inf. dumb, Inf. cretinous, Sl. lamebrained; bird-brained, harebrained, simple-minded, simple, featherbrained, featherheaded, light-headed, foolish, silly, absurd, halfbaked, inane, asinine, anserine, fatuous, fatuitous, idiotic, idiotical, Inf. damfool; scatterbrained, rattleheaded, rattlebrained, addleheaded, addlebrained, ad-dlepated, muddleheaded; irrational, illogical, unreasonable, unreasoning; mentally unsound or unstable, demented, insane, out of one's mind, crackbrained, mad, crazy, Sl. cockeyed, Sl. cuckoo, Sl. nuts.
2. inattentive, heedless, unheeding, unobservant, un-noticing, regardless, inadvertent, blind, deaf; musing, wandering, distracted, daydreaming, engrossed or lost in thought or reverie, off in a world of one's own, a million miles away, faraway, Fr. distrait.
3. careless, unmindful, unwary, unwatchful, unvigi-lant, unguarded, off guard, caught napping, Inf. asleep on the job, Inf. not on the job, Inf asleep at the switch or wheel; improvident, unprepared, unready, short-sighted, negligent, neglectful, remiss; imprudent, indescreet, ill-considered, unwise, ill-advised, inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking; precipitate, rash, impulsive, headlong, reckless, foolhardy, irresponsible.
mine, n. 1. colliery, excavation, well, pit; open pit, strip mine, quarry; lode, vein, deposit, U.S. bonanza.
2. wealth, abundance, gold mine, fund; source, store, storehouse, treasury, reservoir, repository.
3. explosive, Inf. ashcan, depth charge; land mine, booby trap, infernal machine, time bomb.
4. sap, trench, ha-ha, tunnel, burrow, shaft, adit.
-v. 5. excavate, dig, delve; core, burrow, tunnel; extract, scoop out, remove.
6. undermine, sap, subvert, wear down, erode; beleaguer, besiege.
