heedless

/ˈhidlɪs/

Someone heedless is reckless or not paying attention. Heedless rhymes with needless, and someone who's heedless acts as if needed things are needless. If you head out to surf in a tsunami, you're heedless of the giant-wave warnings.

When you pay heed to something you pay attention to it or consider it, but if you’re heedless you do the opposite. Sometimes being heedless means being a risk-taker in an exciting way, or it can just mean losing track of time, but often it describes being inconsiderate. If you keep raising the volume when your brother asks you to turn down the music, you’re heedless of his need to study, and if you're heedless of the yellow tape that says "Do not cross," you disregard the law.

Definitions of heedless

1. adjective

   marked by or paying little heed or attention
   “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals”

   “heedless of danger”

   “heedless of the child's crying”

   synonyms: unheeding

   careless, regardless

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

   deaf, indifferent

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

   antonyms:

   heedful

   taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
2. adjective

   characterized by careless unconcern
   “"the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton”

   synonyms: reckless

   careless

   marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful