Reminded

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ɹəˈmaɪndɪd/

Definitions

1. To have brought back to someone's mind a thought, event, or piece of information that was previously forgotten or overlooked
2. Made someone remember a fact, event, or detail that was not currently in their thoughts
3. Prompted a person to think again about something they had forgotten or not considered recently

Etymology: "Reminded" is the past tense and past participle of "remind," and it is a good example of a word whose surface looks old but whose form is comparatively recent. The verb "remind" dates to the mid 17th century, formed by adding the prefix "re-" to "mind," which in that period meant "to remember." Before that, English had its own word for the same idea, "myndgian" in Old English, and the newer coinage displaced it. The most interesting twist is that "remind" was probably suggested by an earlier and now obsolete verb, "rememorate," which carried the same sense of calling something back to memory. So the new word appears to have grown from a Latinate model rather than from the native "mind" alone, with the English "mind" then supplying its familiar shape.

Synonyms: informed, alerted