Unheeding

Definition: Unheeding

Unheeding

Adjective

1. Marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"- "Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying".

2. Unwilling to hear.

Date "unheeding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references)

Synonyms: Unheeding

Synonyms: deaf to(p) (adj), heedless (adj), inattentive (adj), thoughtless (adj), unlistening(a) (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: heedful (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inattention	Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unheeding

English words defined with "unheeding": Wareless. (references)

"Unheeding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Unheeding" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	50%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	33.33%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Language		Translations for "unheeding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pakujdesshëm (careless, imprudent, incautious, negligent, ownerless, reckless, remiss, unadvised, unguarded). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير منتبه (irrespective). (various references)

Bulgarian		невнимателен (careless, distrait, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, inurbane, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, unattentive, unkind), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, untidy). (various references)

French		insouciant (unconcerned), indifférent (unconcerned, uninterested, unmindful, unmoved). (various references)

German		unachtsame (inadvertently), sorglos (airily, carefree, careless, carelessly, happy go lucky, improvident, improvidently, jaunty, lighthearted, unheedingly, unmindful, unworried). (various references)

Hungarian		gondatlan (be negligent, careless, devoid of cares, floppy, happy go lucky, inadvertent, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, regardless, slack, slap-dash, sloppy, unguarded). (various references)

Manx		neuarreydagh (inattentive, perfunctory, speech, speech), unguarded, unguarded of person), gyn tastey. (various references)

Pig Latin		eedingunhay

Portuguese		sem prestar atenção, negligente (careless, derelict, devil-may-care, heedless, idle, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, inobservant, lazy, loose, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, slack, unmindful, unwary), distraído (absent-minded, abstracted, careless, distracted, distrait, distraught, inobservant, light-headed, negligent, unthinking, wandering), descuidado (brainless, carefree, careless, casual, harebrained, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light-minded, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, slapdash, sloppy, thoughtless, unmindful, unthinking, untidy, unwary). (various references)

Romanian		neglijent (careless, casual, casually, derelict, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, loose, neglectful, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, sleazy, slipshod, slothful, unkempt, unmindful, untidy, unwary), indolent (careless, easy going, idle, indolent, lazy, nonchalant, remiss, slack, sleepy, slothful, supine, truant). (various references)

Russian		невнимательный (careless, distrait, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, inobservant, neglectful, remiss, scatter-brained, unattending, unattentive, unmindful, unobservant). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepažljiv (abstracted, feckless, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, negligent, thoughtless, unmindful), nehatan (careless, incurious, negligent, remiss, slovenly). (various references)

Turkish		umursamayan, ihmal eden, dikkatsiz (careless, freewheeling, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, lax, listless, mindless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, unaware, unheedful, unobservant, unregardful, unseeing, unwary). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unheeding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unfeeding. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-u"
	-1 letter: unhinged.
	-2 letters: enduing, engined, genuine, heeding, ingenue, needing, neighed, unhinge.
	-3 letters: dengue, ending, engine, ginned, gunned, hinged, indene, nighed, undine.
	-4 letters: deign, diene, dinge, endue, ennui, genie, guide, hedge, hinge, indue, inned, neigh, nudge, nudie, undee.
	-5 letters: dene, deni, dine, ding, dune, dung, edge, eide, geed, gene, genu, ghee, gied, gien, gude, guid, heed, hide.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-u"
	+3 letters: guanethidine.
	+4 letters: guanethidines, underwhelming, unenlightened, unhomogenized.
	+5 letters: superhardening, underachieving.
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