Heedful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Heedful \Heed"ful\, a.
     Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect;
     attentive; vigilant. --Shak. -- {Heed"ful*ly}, adv. --
     {Heed"ful*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heedful
       adj 1: taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful
              of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of
              what they were doing" [syn: {attentive}, {thoughtful}]
              [ant: {heedless}]
       2: cautiously attentive; "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of
          his father's advice" [syn: {careful}]
       3: giving attention [syn: {advertent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "heedful":
     accommodating, accommodative, advertent, agog, agreeable, alert,
     all ears, all eyes, assiduous, attentive, aware, canny, careful,
     cautious, circumspect, complaisant, concentrated, conscientious,
     conscionable, conscious, considerate, curious, deliberate,
     delicate, diligent, discreet, earnest, exact, finical, finicking,
     finicky, fussy, gingerly, guarded, helpful, hesitant, indulgent,
     intense, intent, intentive, judicious, leaving out nothing,
     lenient, loving, meticulous, mindful, mindful of others, nice,
     niggling, noncommittal, obliging, observant, observing, on guard,
     on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed,
     overlooking no possibility, painstaking, pawky, politic, prudent,
     punctilious, punctual, regardful, safe, scrupulous, slow to act,
     solicitous, tactful, tender, tentative, thorough, thoughtful,
     tolerant, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising,
     unprecipitate, watchful