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

  Heedless \Heed"less\, a.
     Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless;
     unobservant.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           O, negligent and heedless discipline!    --Shak.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           The heedless lover does not know
           Whose eyes they are that wound him so.   --Waller.
     -- {Heed"less*ly}, adv. -- {Heed"less*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heedless
       adj 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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