Antonyms for heed
hidheed

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1. heed

   Care concerns what we possess; anxiety, often, what we do not; riches bring many cares; poverty brings many anxieties. Care also signifies watchful attention, in view of possible harm; as, "This side up with care;" "Take care of yourself;" or, as a sharp warning, "Take care!" Caution has a sense of possible harm and risk only to be escaped, if at all, by careful deliberation and observation. Care inclines to the positive, caution to the negative; care is shown in doing, caution largely in not doing. Precaution is allied with care, prudence with caution; a man rides a dangerous horse with care; caution will keep him from mounting the horse; precaution looks to the saddle-girths, bit and bridle, and all that may make the rider secure. Circumspection is watchful observation and calculation, but without the timidity implied in caution. Concern denotes a serious interest, milder than anxiety; as, concern for the safety of a ship at sea. Heed implies attention without disquiet; it is now largely displaced by attention and care. Solicitude involves especially the element of desire, not expressed in anxiety, and of hopefulness, not implied in care. A parent feels constant solicitude for his children's welfare, anxiety as to dangers that threaten it, with care to guard against them. Watchfulness recognizes the possibility of danger, wariness the probability. A man who is not influenced by caution to keep out of danger may display great wariness in the midst of it. Care has also the sense of responsibility, with possible control, as expressed in charge, management, oversight; as, these children are under my care; send the money to me in care of the firm. Compare ALARM; ANXIETY; PRUDENCE.

   Antonyms:
   carelessness, disregard, heedlessness, inattention, indifference, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight, recklessness, remissness, slight

   Synonyms:
   anxiety, attention, care, caution, charge, circumspection, concern, direction, forethought, management, oversight, perplexity, precaution, prudence, solicitude, trouble, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness, worry

   Preposition:
   Take care of the house; for the future; about the matter.

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1. heedverb

   Antonyms:
   disregard, slight, ignore

   Synonyms:
   mind, regard, notice, attend to, observe

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1. • Obey

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.3 / 3 votes

1. attentiveness, heed, regard, paying attentionverb

   paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

   "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences"

   Synonyms:
   paying attention, wish, esteem, regard, attentiveness, gaze, respect, compliments

2. heed, mind, listenverb

   pay close attention to; give heed to

   "Heed the advice of the old men"

   Synonyms:
   listen, take heed, take care, hear, beware, bear in mind, mind

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1. heednoun

   Antonyms:
   disregard, inattention

   Synonyms:
   regard, attention, consideration, notice

2. heedverb

   Synonyms:
   mind, regard, consider, notice, attend

How to use heed in a sentence?

1. Jay Jacobs:

   Voters understand better than some of those looking to score political points that The Governor has done a great job staying focused on saving lives and ending this pandemic, those seeking to politicize the process should take heed.

2. Thomas à Kempis:

   It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

3. Saint Augustine:

   God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

4. Wesley Norris:

   Gen. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, in the meantime, stood by, and frequently enjoined( a county constable) to lay it on well, an injunction which he did not fail to heed ; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.

5. Ertugrul Apakan:

   It is regrettable that the sides did not heed our many calls for restraint.

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