UNHEEDING Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

unheeding

adjective

Definition of unheeding

as in heedless

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Adjective

Damon’s Odysseus is numbed by the massacre of Troy’s civilians; Fiennes’ hates himself for leading the best men of Ithaca to their death, gutting his own community in the heedless destruction of another.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Later, in Capital, Marx warns that soil depletion caused by the heedless exploitation of nature would threaten the physical foundation of society itself.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026

Definition of heedless

Adjective

Kendall took off his shirt, unmindful of the scar slashing down his torso.

— Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
To do this, Moments of Space is centered around Tibetan Dzogchen techniques, which emphasises mindfulness over the unconsciousness practice (unmindful thinking and feeling) many other apps focus on.

— Georgia Day, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024

Definition of unmindful

Adjective

Watching the slow, unthinking undulations of Technicolor bells trailing lengthy tentacles like slo-mo ribbon dancers is strangely soothing.

— Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026
In contrast, Dessalines is typically described as violent, unthinking, emotional and heartless.

— Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 June 2026

Definition of unthinking

Adjective

One of the key questions investigators are working to answer is why the control center appeared to be unaware that a train remained stalled on the tracks ahead of a train moving at 120 mph.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
But Vester, the assistant city manager, on Tuesday told commissioners the city was unaware of the naming-rights contract until recently.

— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of unaware

Adjective

The deployment of cringe might seems like a ridiculous, even unconscious, exercise by an administration that – as with the five-day tenure of former press secretary Katie Zacharia shows – regularly exposes itself to derision and satire.

— Matthew N. Hannah, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
Officers reported with paramedics to the actor’s home for a report of an unconscious man who was not breathing.

— Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of unconscious

Adjective

During the first couple weeks of July, unknowing customers still came to the cafe almost every day.

— Lauren Ng, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Winds carried radiation hundreds of miles from the open-air tests, exposing thousands of unknowing people to nuclear fallout.

— Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2026

Definition of unknowing

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