Crossword clues for heedlessness
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.
Wiktionary
n. The state or character of being heedless; inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness.
WordNet
n. a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) [syn: inattentiveness] [ant: attentiveness]
the trait of acting rashly and without prudence [syn: mindlessness, rashness]
the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities [syn: unmindfulness, inadvertence, inadvertency] [ant: mindfulness, mindfulness]
Usage examples of "heedlessness".
Immu and this one know that there is no malice in your heart, only the heedlessness of youth.
Niall was a soldier by both nature and training, and despised the heedlessness that cost unnecessary clan lives.
We, in truth, entered the school of inner meaning and exposition at a time when the minds of all that dwell on earth were wrapt in heedlessness.
It amazed her to think of how she had once driven one-handed through the city behind the wheel of a smaller, sportier BMW, heedless of her heedlessness.
There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind.
There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind.