Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked by or paying little heed; unmindful or thoughtless. See Synonyms at careless, impetuous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without heed; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; regardless; unobserving.
- Synonyms Remiss, etc. (see negligent); unmindful, inconsiderate, unobservant.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by careless unconcern
- adj. marked by or paying little heed or attention
Etymologies
- heed + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“Courage," I cried in English, heedless of the consequences.”
“I could not help liking the sea to a coquette, so indifferent and heedless is it to the strange emotions it raises in the breast of man.”
“The late adversaries, warmed to affection at the sight of him, joined in heedless confusion, and surrounded him; the women kissed his hands, and the edges of his garments; nay, his horse received tribute of their embraces; some wept their welcome; he appeared an angel of peace descended among them; and the only danger was, that his mortal nature would be demonstrated, by his suffocation from the kindness of his friends.”
“The financial crisis was not the result of a 'perfect storm' of unforeseeable economic events, but of blameworthy conduct, of what Franklin Roosevelt called 'heedless greed,' for which there has been too little accountability.”
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“By that standard, it's hard to call heedless subprime mortgage credit a social good.”
“It speaks vividly for a kind of heedless determi nation shown by masses of other illegal immigrants, an enormous number of whom have been caught, after tortuous journeys through the most inhospitable terrain, and deported yet, despite all, have returned to try again.”
“I remember this kind of heedless spending in the face of illness; buttoning my fly; showering; dressing; shaving.”
“But Lawford, quite unmindful of the shock, continued in a kind of heedless reverie to watch, as he combed, the still visionary thoughts that passed in tranced stillness before his eyes.”
“Meshoppen, Pa., showed "heedless" disregard for the "huge risk" she created when she fired her rifle after sunset on Sept. 14, 2006.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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allover
reintegrate, spight, surveillant, harmonize, Colophon, workplace, bigoted, unsighted, bridgework, salutation, voltmeter, octane and 159 more...
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, jobless, endless, useless, unless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, nevertheless, countless, doubtless and 434 more...
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xulilux's list
leviathan, destitute, iapetus, caesura, ineffable, eschew, phosphene, fungible, antediluvian, nomenclature, mottle, europa and 84 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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vocab 3
predilection, vagrant, stint, insinuate, incendiary, heedless, nonchalant, writhe, queasy, incandescest, hauteur, castigate and 24 more...
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Mr. Prolagus is surprised
Words - or different usages of words I already knew - that I am learning thanks to Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
See also ofravens' with thanks to Anne Shirley.alder, decorum, ferret, dint, wont, gauntlet, turnip, sorrel, deft, embower, scant, peck and 92 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 350 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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good words
words that are mostly fun to say or just lovely
undulate, voluptuous, whimsy, parse, dank, cerulean, peen, traipsing, listless, coup de grace, reconnoiter, mercurial and 499 more...
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Go over
mollify, obstinate, obviate, occlude, onerous, obscure, paragon, pedantic, perfunctory, placate, placid, prodigal and 364 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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adjectives
haughty, rueful, affable, unctuous, dispassionate, disaffected, glacial, daft, debilitating, mawkish, insipid, victorian and 131 more...
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