Heedless
['hiːdlɪs]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by careless unconcern; 'the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes'- Edith Wharton; 'reckless squandering of public funds' .
(adj.) marked by or paying little heed or attention; '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' .
Checker: Yale--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.
Typist: Shane
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unobserving, unobservant, inattentive, careless, thoughtless, negligent, neglectful, unmindful, regardless, inconsiderate, unwatchful.
Checker: Prudence
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See HEEDFUL]
Editor: Nat
Examples
- A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She is not actuated by malevolence, but sheer, heedless folly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But heedless of the peasant's warning, the players moved straightway toward the castle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The little heedless tyrant had so destroyed it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The ordinary man prefers easy ways so long as they may be followed, and is almost wilfully heedless whether they end at last in a cul-de-sac. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whence did she acquire the gift to be heedless and never offend? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I declined it of course, with all the courtesy I could put into my manner; she danced off heedless and lightsome. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But Madame Olenska, heedless of tradition, was attired in a long robe of red velvet bordered about the chin and down the front with glossy black fur. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- About the first adventure we had yesterday afternoon, after landing here, came near finishing that heedless Blucher. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Curious to consider how heedless flies are! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- If you had been more mindful of yourself, and less of me, when we grew up here together, I think my heedless fancy never would have wandered from you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have ze idea--it come to me in a moment--zat ze silk in zis magazin-- Ferguson, how heedless I am. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So heedless was he of time or object, that being bound for Athens, he wandered as far out of his way as Bath. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They walked off, utterly heedless of Mr. Rushworth's repeated question of, Shall I go too? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Editor: Nat