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heedless

adj
/ˈhiːdləs/

Etymology

From heed + -less.

  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 heedless — “heed + less”

Definitions

  1. Unaware

    Unaware; without noticing; careless; inattentive.

    • Sing we joyous, all together, heedless of the wind and weather.
    • Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at heedless. 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.

01heedless02noticing03noticed04notice05warning06warn07unwise08wise09disrespectful

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

9 hops · closes at heedless

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