ADJECTIVE
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taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
so heedful a writer
heedful of the warnings
heedful of what they were doing - giving attention
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cautiously attentive
heedful of his father's advice
careful of her feelings
How To Use heedful In A Sentence
- In its isolation the island has been as unheedful of tourists as it has been unspoiled.
- so heedful a writer
- And do thou (O reader!) bring thy Lord to remembrance in thy soul with humility and in reverence without loudness in words in the mornings and evenings; and be not thou of those who are unheedful.
- Perhaps new television spots could show that children can be distracted from courses of action that fathers don't approve of - that confrontation is therefore an inferior response to an unheedful child.
- Alan Herbard, younger and less experienced, gritted his teeth and thrust in with all his weight, absolute to make a success of his first command, and perhaps did more execution than was heedful out of pure anxiety. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
- Some tentie rin a cannie errand to a neebor town, some, heedful, run on a quiet errand to a neighboring town. Selections from Five English Poets
- Be heedful of what you store because your mind is a chamber of information.
- Wearily, she walked through the back door toward sunset, heedful that she might receive a sharp reprimand.
- Health professionals, particularly doctors, are acutely heedful of data in the form of tables and charts and less so of words and models.
- And the jackdaw, unheedful, sought to roost the forbidden bough, though hands reached out in anguish and the world hushed.