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Heedful

adjective
1.
Taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention.  Synonyms: attentive, paying attention, thoughtful.  "So heedful a writer" , "Heedful of what they were doing"  Antonym: heedless.
2.
Cautiously attentive.  Synonym: careful.  "Heedful of his father's advice"
3.
Giving attention.  Synonym: advertent.



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"Heedful" Quotes from Famous Books



... gave way before all the little trials in their paths- -were first careless, and then fractious. Perhaps when they were older they would find out that this uplifted sense of excited expectation is the very warning to be heedful. ...
— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge

... slight whirring noise behind him. Heedful of his companion's admonition he relaxed in apparent unconcern, but his hand stole once more to the fold in his blouse. His long fingers rested caressingly upon the butt of his automatic. There were still three good Earth ...
— Slaves of Mercury • Nat Schachner

... night. As no one could deny what nobody knew anything about, it was decided. They sought and found the "Golden Sword," and put up with it, and in it. The supper party was, at least, merry, for Angioletto led it. He sang, he joked, made love, spent money, was wise, unwise, heedless, heedful. He charmed a grin at last into the very Captain's long face. That warrior, indeed, went so far as to drink his health in wine of Verona. He and his Olimpia—unhesitatingly his in the gaiety of the moment—drank ...
— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... frightfully in my presence, with the wretch who seized me, and then they made an impious bargain, to which I was compelled to acquiesce, and to which they bound me as well as themselves by oaths. Ah! Middleton, I fear the heretics are not so heedful of their vows as we who are nurtured in the bosom ...
— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper

... your valor nor your labor, but that d——e uncovered honesty will mar your fortunes. Observe the man who commandeth, and yet is commanded himself; he goeth not forth to serve the queen's realm, but to humor his own revenge. Be heedful of your bearings, speak not your mind to all you meet. I tell you I have ground for my caution: Essex hath enemies; he hath friends too. Now there are two or three of Montjoy's kindred sent out in your army; they are to report all your conduct to us ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin


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