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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
heedless
adj 1: 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" [syn: thoughtless,
unheeding] [ant: heedful]
2: characterized by careless unconcerned; "the heedless
generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used
to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering
of public funds" [syn: reckless]
WordNet (r) 2.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "heedless":
Lethean, absentminded, airy, aloof, amnestic, apathetic, arbitrary,
ataractic, blase, blind, blocked, bored, capricious, careless,
casual, converted, cursory, deaf, degage, detached, devil-may-care,
disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distant,
distracted, distrait, easygoing, feckless, flippant, forgetful,
forgetting, free and easy, grasshopper, happy-go-lucky, impassive,
improvident, inadvertent, inattentive, inclined to forget,
inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, inexcitable, inobservant,
insouciant, lackadaisical, lazy, listless, mindless, neglectful,
negligent, nonchalant, oblivious, offhand, perfunctory, phlegmatic,
pococurante, reasonless, reckless, regardless, repressed,
respectless, shiftless, stolid, suppressed, tactless, thoughtless,
thriftless, turned-off, unaccommodating, unanxious, uncalculating,
uncaring, uncomplaisant, unconcerned, uncooperative, undiplomatic,
undiscriminating, uneconomical, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding,
unhelpful, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmarking,
unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobliging, unobservant,
unobserving, unprepared, unproviding, unready, unreasoning,
unreflecting, unreflective, unremarking, unsolicitous, untactful,
unthinking, unthoughtful, unthrifty, withdrawn, wrecking
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
reckless, thoughtless, unheeding
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