to one's mind
/tu wʌnz ˈmaɪnd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
From one's point of view, in one's opinion.
Example Sentences
- "To my mind if you’ve talked to Stacy then you’ve talked to Beth, since they tell each other everything."
- "To her mind, the only thing worse than public speaking is public dancing."
- "Hora[tio] Is it a cuſtome? / Ham[let]. I [aye] marry iſt, / But to my minde, though I am natiue heere / And to the manner borne, it is a cuſtome / More honourd in the breach, then the obſeruance."
- "To my mind there has always been something inexpressibly awful in family feuds."
- "Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid their fallen fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible from the scrutiny of the curious, came forth in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed shoulders and unhappy eyes might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate, unrecognised."
- "The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tu wʌnz ˈmaɪnd/
- British English: /tuː wʌnz ˈmaɪnd/