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ADJECTIVE
  1. taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
    so heedful a writer
    heedful of the warnings
    heedful of what they were doing
  2. giving attention
  3. 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
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