Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unheeding; careless.
- Precipitate; sudden.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Incautious; precipitate; heedless.
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- adjective obsolete
incautious ;precipitate ;heedless
Etymologies
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From un- + heedy.
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Examples
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This is he my hest declineth, the unheedy, the runaway.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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This is he my hest declineth, the unheedy, the runaway.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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This is he my hest declineth, the unheedy, the runaway.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Oh! why should my soul suffer for ever, why eternal pain for the unheedy, short-lived sin of my unwilling lips?
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Aphra Behn 1664
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