Crossword clues for heedless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heedless \Heed"less\, a. Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.
O, negligent and heedless discipline!
--Shak.
The heedless lover does not know
Whose eyes they are that wound him so.
--Waller.
-- Heed"less*ly, adv. -- Heed"less*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"without regard," 1570s, from heed + -less. Related: Heedlessly; heedlessness.
Wiktionary
a. unaware, without noticing.
WordNet
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" [syn: thoughtless, unheeding] [ant: heedful]
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]
Usage examples of "heedless".
The heedless fellow fulfilled his commission so well that the actress, feeling insulted, told him that she dared me to call on her.
He shoved past Damner, still heedless of all opposition other than hay.
But after all, if it were not for the unwearying courage of my brother Beelzebub in keeping men in heedless dazedness, ye all would not be worth a straw.
Greenwood and the Great River, nigh to Loeg Ningloron, the Gladden Fields, for he was heedless and set no guard, deeming that all his foes were overthrown.
To everyone else, my father included, what mattered in everything, from Diocesan Meetings to Patriarchs Balls, was just what Delane seemed so heedless of: the standing of the people who made up the committee or headed the movement.
Her light-clad plains Girdlers did the same beside her, heedless of the downpour that battered the reeling ranks of shielders and Khinish.
Freud would call the id, and the one others might refer to as the hedonistic faction, was a stronger bunch: wild, hearty, and unaware of their own strength, or perhaps heedless of it.
Fearing she might turn at any moment, Arlo obfuscated: he wrenched camouflage from the shelves and flipped it into the cart, heedless of form or content to the act: a box of Tampax, a tin of litchi nuts, a jar of maraschino cherries, a pack of frozen prawns, dietetic grapefruit slices.
Then with a supreme effort she flung it open, and heedless of her night-clothes passed into the bitter night.
He splashed through the frigid water, heedless of the mud that sucked at his boots, and braced a knee against the embankment as he pulled the unconscious girl from the murky riverlet and propped her against the sodden, overgrown bank.
Minalde stepped forward quickly, holding out her hand, heedless of the dust that daubed the hems of her faded peasant skirt and liberally smutched the baby Prince in her arms.
Hastening toward the sound of the voice, Sond crashed through shrubs and bushes, heedless of the noise he was making, thinking only to end the ache of his desires in sweet bliss.
Adam toiled on, breathing hard, careless now of the reaching thorns and heedless of the rougher ground.
She kept her gaze on his, and he suddenly hurried again, wrenching off his frock coat, waistcoat, heedless of buttons and threads.
That it moved heedless of any opposition bespoke its size and the power of those who commanded the host.