heedless

heedless
I adjective blind, careless, deaf, disregardful, hasty, improvident, imprudent, impulsive, inattentive, incautious, incautus, insouciant, irresponsible, mindless, neglectful, neglegens, negligent, nonobservant, oblivious, off guard, precipitate, rash, reckless, temerarius, thoughtless, unaware, uncaring, unconcerned, undiscerning, unhearing, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing, unobservant, unperceiving, unseeing, unsolicitous, unthinking, unwary, unwatchful, without consideration associated concepts: recklessness II index blind (not discerning), careless, cursory, derelict (negligent), hot-blooded, ill-judged, impolitic, improvident, imprudent, impulsive (rash), inadvertent, incognizant, injudicious, insensible, intractable, irrational, lawless, lax, negligent, oblivious, passive, perfunctory, prodigal, reckless, relentless, remiss, slipshod, thoughtless, unaware, unpolitic, wanton

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  • Heedless — Heed less, a. Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant. [1913 Webster] O, negligent and heedless discipline! Shak. [1913 Webster] The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so. Waller. {Heed… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • heedless — without regard, 1570s, from HEED (Cf. heed) + LESS (Cf. less). Related: Heedlessly; heedlessness …   Etymology dictionary

  • heedless — thoughtless, *careless, inadvertent Analogous words: *forgetful, oblivious, unmindful: *abstracted, absent, absentminded, distraught: frivolous, light minded, flippant, volatile (see corresponding nouns at LIGHTNESS): remiss, lax, slack,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • heedless — [adj] careless asleep at the switch*, daydreaming, disregardful, fast and loose*, feckless, foolhardy, goofing off*, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, irreflective, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, out to …   New thesaurus

  • heedless — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ showing a reckless lack of care or attention. DERIVATIVES heedlessly adverb heedlessness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • heedless — [hēd′lis] adj. not taking heed; careless; unmindful heedlessly adv. heedlessness n …   English World dictionary

  • heedless — adj. (cannot stand alone) heedless of (heedless of danger) * * * [ hiːdlɪs] (cannot stand alone) heedless of (heedless of danger) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • heedless — adjective 1. marked by or paying little heed or attention (Freq. 4) We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics Franklin D. Roosevelt heedless of danger heedless of the child s crying •… …   Useful english dictionary

  • heedless — [[t]hi͟ːdləs[/t]] ADJ: oft ADJ of n If you are heedless of someone or something, you do not take any notice of them. [FORMAL] Heedless of time or any other consideration, they began to search the underwater cave... She was rummaging through the… …   English dictionary

  • heedless — heed|less [ˈhi:dləs] adj heedless of sth literary not paying attention to something ▪ O Hara rode on, heedless of danger. >heedlessly adv …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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