different between centered vs mindful

English

Alternative forms

• centred (UK, Canada, Commonwealth)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?n.t?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?n.t??d/

Adjective

centered (comparative more centered, superlative most centered)

1. middlemost; located at the center
2. (especially Canada, US) emotionally stable, calm, serene; having a balanced mind [from the 1970s]

Verb

centered

1. simple past tense and past participle of center

Anagrams

• decenter, decentre

English

Alternative forms

• mindefull, mindfull (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English myndeful, myndefull, from Old English ?emyndful (“of good memory”), equivalent to mind +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??ndf?l/

Adjective

mindful (comparative more mindful, superlative most mindful)

1. Being aware (of something); attentive, heedful. [from 14th c.]
2. (obsolete) Inclined (to do something). [16th-19th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.5:

     These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].

Antonyms

• mindless
• seat-of-the-pants

Derived terms

• mindfully
• mindfulness

Translations

Etymology 2

mind +? -ful

Noun

mindful (plural mindfuls)

1. As much as can be held in one's mind at a time.

Further reading

• mindful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mindful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.