Remind

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ɹəˈmaɪnd/

Definitions

1. To trigger a person's memory about a specific detail or event
2. To prompt an individual to recall something they may not currently remember or acknowledge
3. To cause a person to bring a fact or event back into their mind

Etymology: The verb "remind" is a fairly modern formation, built from the prefix "re-" and the older verb "mind," which in its earlier sense meant "to remember." That older sense survives in the phrase "to bear in mind." So the literal idea is something like "to bring back to mind," and the word appeared in the mid-17th century. Before "remind" took hold, English speakers used the Old English verb "myndgian," which meant to call something to mind or to remember, and which "remind" eventually displaced. The new word may have been shaped by an obsolete verb, "rememorate," which carried the same sense of recalling something, so "remind" seems to have been a sort of reshaping of that existing idea rather than a wholly fresh invention.

Synonyms: prompt, jog, refresh, alert, notify

Antonyms: forget, ignore, overlook, dismiss, neglect