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# heedless

«heedless» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not paying attention to something, especially to a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (heedless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not paying attention to something, especially to a warning or danger; careless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heedless/#m1)

2) In «heedless of»: without thinking about: «heedless of the danger». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heedless/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In The Wind in the Willows Toad is heedless of his friends' warnings and drives too fast. Stories show heedless characters getting into trouble. Safety: being heedless near roads, water or fire is dangerous. Phrases: «heedless of the danger/warning», «heedless rush».

### examples

- Heedless of the warning, Toad jumped into the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heedless/#x1)
- The boy ran heedless across the busy road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heedless/#x2)
- She was heedless of the rain and kept playing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heedless/#x3)
- Heedless spending soon emptied his piggy bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heedless/#x4)
- The puppy dashed heedless into the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heedless/#x5)
- Don't be heedless near the cliff edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heedless/#x6)
- Filled with shame at being once more proved heedless, Ian arose and did as the horse bade him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heedless/#x7)

### note

From «heed» (attention) + «-less» (without). Adverb: heedlessly. Opposite: heedful, careful.

### In the corpora

- [What a conceited and heedless ass!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/34/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heedless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heedless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.