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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heedless \Heed"less\, adjective Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.
O, negligent and heedless discipline! --Shak.
The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so. --Waller. -- {Heed"less*ly}, adverb -- {Heed"less*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
heedless
adjective
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: {thoughtless}, {unheeding}] [ant: {heedful}]
2: characterized by careless unconcerned; "the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering of public funds" [syn: {reckless}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unremarking, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unthrifty, withdrawn, wrecking
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