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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. marked by or paying little heed or attention;
- Example: "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt;
- Example: "heedless of danger"
- Example: "heedless of the child's crying"
[syn: heedless, unheeding]

2. characterized by careless unconcern;
- Example: "the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton
- Example: "reckless squandering of public funds"
[syn: heedless, reckless]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Heedless \Heed"less\, a. Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant. [1913 Webster] O, negligent and heedless discipline! --Shak. [1913 Webster] The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so. --Waller. -- Heed"less*ly, adv. -- Heed"less*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

heedless adj 1: marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying" [syn: heedless, unheeding] [ant: attentive, heedful, paying attention, thoughtful] 2: characterized by careless unconcern; "the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering of public funds" [syn: heedless, reckless]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

109 Moby Thesaurus words for "heedless": Lethean, absentminded, airy, aloof, amnestic, apathetic, arbitrary, ataractic, blase, blind, blocked, bored, capricious, careless, casual, converted, cursory, deaf, degage, detached, devil-may-care, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distant, distracted, distrait, easygoing, feckless, flippant, forgetful, forgetting, free and easy, grasshopper, happy-go-lucky, impassive, improvident, inadvertent, inattentive, inclined to forget, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, inexcitable, inobservant, insouciant, lackadaisical, lazy, listless, mindless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, oblivious, offhand, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reasonless, reckless, regardless, repressed, respectless, shiftless, stolid, suppressed, tactless, thoughtless, thriftless, turned-off, unaccommodating, unanxious, uncalculating, uncaring, uncomplaisant, unconcerned, uncooperative, undiplomatic, undiscriminating, uneconomical, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, unhelpful, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobliging, unobservant, unobserving, unprepared, unproviding, unready, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unremarking, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unthrifty, withdrawn, wrecking