Heedless
adjective
Not paying attention to what one is doing.
He was heedless of the danger signs and walked straight into trouble.
Often appears as...
- heedless of danger
- heedless risk
adjective
Not caring about the possible results of your actions.
She was heedless to the consequences of her actions.
Often appears as...
- heedless to precautions
- heedless to consequences
adjective
Not paying attention to what one is doing.
He was heedless of the danger signs and walked straight into trouble.
Often appears as...
- heedless of danger
- heedless risk
adjective
Not caring about the possible results of your actions.
She was heedless to the consequences of her actions.
Often appears as...
- heedless to precautions
- heedless to consequences
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'heedless' implies negative judgment towards someone's actions or attitude.
His heedless spending got him into debt.
Pro Tip 2/3Possible Outcomes
'Heedless' often suggests that bad results could follow because important things were ignored.
The hikers were heedless of the weather forecast and got caught in a storm.
Pro Tip 3/3Inattentiveness
'Heedless' describes a lack of attention but doesn't always mean it was intentional.
The child was heedless of her surroundings and lost her way.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'heedless' implies negative judgment towards someone's actions or attitude.
His heedless spending got him into debt.
Pro Tip 2/3Possible Outcomes
'Heedless' often suggests that bad results could follow because important things were ignored.
The hikers were heedless of the weather forecast and got caught in a storm.
Pro Tip 3/3Inattentiveness
'Heedless' describes a lack of attention but doesn't always mean it was intentional.
The child was heedless of her surroundings and lost her way.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'heedless' implies negative judgment towards someone's actions or attitude.
His heedless spending got him into debt.
Pro Tip 2/3Possible Outcomes
'Heedless' often suggests that bad results could follow because important things were ignored.
The hikers were heedless of the weather forecast and got caught in a storm.
Pro Tip 3/3Inattentiveness
'Heedless' describes a lack of attention but doesn't always mean it was intentional.
The child was heedless of her surroundings and lost her way.
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How to resolve racially...
there's a time for conciliation, there's a time for confrontation, but it's never a time to freeze up like a deer in the headlights, and it's never a time to lash out in heedless, thoughtless anger. The lesson in this is that when it comes to race relations, sometimes, we've got to know how to pray,
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How to resolve racially...
there's a time for conciliation, there's a time for confrontation, but it's never a time to freeze up like a deer in the headlights, and it's never a time to lash out in heedless, thoughtless anger. The lesson in this is that when it comes to race relations, sometimes, we've got to know how to pray,
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Quote examples
Gary Hamel
American Businessman
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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James Surowiecki
American Journalist
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.
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James Harvey Robinson
American Historian
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
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John Dingell
American Politician
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
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Abe Fortas
American Judge
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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Will Self
English Author
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
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Richard Harris Barham
English Comedian
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
Quote examples
Gary Hamel
American Businessman
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
Quote examples
James Surowiecki
American Journalist
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.
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James Harvey Robinson
American Historian
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
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John Dingell
American Politician
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
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Abe Fortas
American Judge
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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Will Self
English Author
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
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Richard Harris Barham
English Comedian
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
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