heedful
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- heedfully adverb
- heedfulness noun
- unheedful adjective
- unheedfully adverb
- unheedfulness noun
Etymology
Origin of heedful
Example Sentences
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A more heedful scientist might have surveyed the Chinese data and begun preparations for tests of his own.
From New York Times • May 12, 2020
McMillan initially promised to train fissile material handlers to be more heedful of plutonium-handling perils, for example, and to bring the inventory and safety documents guiding their work up to date.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 30, 2017
Her 16th birthday is the occasion for an Edwardian tennis match – lots of chaps swanning about in white flannels and boaters – through which she skitters barefoot, heedful only of her secret romance.
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2012
And the military, despite its intermittently heavy-handed responses, is heedful of public sentiment to a degree unprecedented under the old regime.
From Time • Jun. 2, 2011
He who gave its body shape was a freeman none could bend, heedful of the arbiter none might disobey, humble towards God, loyal to himself, a friend to every man, an aspirant for life.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
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