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heedful

adj

Etymology

From heed + -ful.

  1. derived from *kadʰ-✻ — “to heed, protect”
  2. inherited from *hōdijan✻ — “to heed, guard”
  3. inherited from hēdan — “to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”
  4. inherited from heden
  5. suffixed as heedful — “heed + -ful”

Definitions

  1. Taking heed.

  2. Paying close attention

    Paying close attention; mindful.

    • Hamlet: […]It is a damned ghost that we have seen, And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note; For I mine eyes will rivet to his face, And after we will both our judgments join In censure of his seeming.

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Derived

heedfully, heedfulness, unheedful

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at heedful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at heedful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at heedful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA