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Webster 1913 Edition
Heedless
Heed′less
,Adj.
Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.
O, negligent and
– heedless
discipline! Shakespeare
Heed′less-ly
, adv.
Heed′less-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Heedless
HEE'DLESS
,Adj.
The heedless lover does not know,
Whose eyes they are that wound him so.
Definition 2024
heedless
heedless
English
Adjective
heedless (comparative more heedless, superlative most heedless)
- Unaware, without noticing.
- Sing we joyous, all together, heedless of the wind and weather.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. […] A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.
Derived terms
Translations
unaware, without noticing
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