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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Kai, appearing both accustomed to the attention and heedful of it, tended to end each exchange with a playful laugh and the same message: “Have fun, OK?”
From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2021
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
It was a face of subtle influences, and the very sight of it roused in Nehemiah a more heedful fear than the "shootin'-iron" in the bluff moonshiner's hand had induced.
From The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles
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