heedful

/ˈhidfəl/

Being heedful means paying careful attention to something (or someone). You'll want to be especially heedful of your best friend's feelings if he's having a bad week.

If you're heedful, you're mindful or attentive. You should be heedful of drinking plenty of water when you work outside on a hot summer day, and heedful of the crumbling stone steps if you're exploring the ruins of an old building. It's also important to be heedful of the way other people feel. This adjective comes from heed, "careful attention," and its Old English root hedan, "observe or protect."

Definitions of heedful

1. adjective

   taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
   “heedful of the warnings”

   “so heedful a writer”

   “heedful of what they were doing”

   synonyms: attentive, paying attention, thoughtful

   antonyms:

   heedless

   marked by or paying little heed or attention

   careless, regardless

   (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration

   deaf, indifferent

   (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed
2. adjective

   cautiously attentive
   “heedful of his father's advice”

   synonyms: careful

   aware, mindful

   bearing in mind; attentive to
3. adjective

   giving attention
   synonyms: advertent

   attentive

   (often followed by `to') giving care or attention