ADJECTIVE
  1. taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
    so heedful a writer
    heedful of the warnings
    heedful of what they were doing
  2. giving attention
  3. cautiously attentive
    heedful of his father's advice
    careful of her feelings
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How To Use heedful In A Sentence

  • Achilles Tatius, who was a heedful observer of all these passages, saw with alarm, that by the last collocation the armed Latins were interposed between the Immortal Guards and the discontented citizens, which made it most probable that the conspiracy was discovered, and that Alexius found he had a good right to reckon upon the assistance of Tancred and his forces in the task of suppressing it. Count Robert of Paris
  • So why is our polity unheedful of the persistence of pervasive discrimination in our own midst, ask global solidarity networks.
  • 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.
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