unheed
unheed verb: to deliberately fail to heed or take notice of; disregard; ignore.
Verb
unheed (third-person singular simple present unheeds, present participle unheeding, simple past and past participle unheeded)
- To deliberately fail to heed or take notice of; disregard; ignore.
- Unfortunately, from its liability to accident, and the necessity of entrusting it to the care of those who are either so familiar with danger as to unheed its warnings, or so infatuated as to rely, in despite of its warnings, with over-weening confidence […]1847, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
- Neither the fair young English strumpet, who was Dr. White's patient, should have been permitted to unheed his advice to abstain from intercourse, and thus go on scattering her dints until they struck down some gentle wife; nor the drunken youth, who forfeited his life to his folly, have been...1882, Agrippa Nelson Bell, The Sanitarian
- Synonyms:
- put aside, shrug off, take no notice of
Noun
unheed (uncountable)
- Inattention.
- I learnt I had missed, by rash unheed, My track; that, so the Will decided, In life death, we should be divided, And at the sense I ached indeed.1990, Joseph Hillis Miller, Tropes, parables, performatives: essays on twentieth-century literature
- Synonyms:
- heedlessness
Synonyms of unheed
Forms of unheed
| third-person singular present | unheeds |
|---|---|
| present participle | unheeding |
| past participle | unheeded |
| past | unheeded |
Origin of unheed
From un- + heed.
Words that rhyme with unheed
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- weed
- proceed
- stampede
- concede
- accede
- deed
- exceed
- need
- bede
- knead
- mislead
- plead
- rede
- swede
- cede
- creed
- godspeed
- heed
- intercede
- keyed
- leed
- meed
- precede
- recede
- tumbleweed
- a friend in need is a friend indeed
- beread
- greed
- he'd
- indeed
- interbreed
- kneed
- mead
- secede
- she'd
- sneed
- steed
- supersede
- underfeed
- we'd
- ye'd
- agreed
- anasheed
- aniseed
- atheed
- caid
- co-feed
- cofeed
Questions about unheed
- What does unheed mean?
- Unheed means to deliberately fail to heed or take notice of; disregard; ignore.
- What part of speech is unheed?
- Unheed can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of unheed?
- The past tense of unheed is unheeded.
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