ADJECTIVE
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taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
so heedful a writer
heedful of the warnings
heedful of what they were doing - giving attention
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cautiously attentive
heedful of his father's advice
careful of her feelings
How To Use heedful In A Sentence
- In its isolation the island has been as unheedful of tourists as it has been unspoiled.
- He went about his work, unheedful of the jests, ungalled by his irons, unmindful of the groans and laughter about him.
- A religious person thus may be unheedful of a higher morality or civic sense, or may not even sense the morality involved in the situation.
- Commerce requires governance by politics, art, culture, and nature: to slow it down, to make it heedful, to make it pay attention to people and place.
- If, through thought and contemplation, we become heedful of the dangers it poses, we can feel motivated to overcome it. Freedom from Fear by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- By effort and heedfulness, discipline and self-mastery, let the wise one make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.
- Some ca 'the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin [drive, heedful run] Robert Burns How To Know Him
- Whilst making a desperate rush after one, cap in hand, and all too unheedful of the obstacles lying in my path, I struck the toes of my bootless left foot against a thin slab of earthfast stone, which stood edge-on and straight up.
- So the kings said that they would give him all things soever that he desired, and therewith was a great army got ready, and all things wrought in the most heedful wise, ships and all war-gear, so that his journey might be of the stateliest: but Sigurd himself steered the dragon-keel which was the greatest and noblest; richly wrought were their sails, and glorious to look on. The Story of the Volsungs
- He must needs cut the beast with his rod, and so managed to hit White Posy, who starts aside, and Cis, sitting unheedfully on that new-fangled French saddle, was thrown in an instant. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland