What are the opposite words for heedless?
Heedless, an adjective often used to describe someone who is careless or disregarding, has many antonyms that convey the opposite meaning. Thoughtful, cautious, aware, mindful, conscientious, attentive, and vigilant are some of the antonyms for "heedless." Thoughtful suggests being considerate and reflective while cautious conveys being cautious or wary. Being mindful implies being aware of one's surroundings and the needs of others, while conscientious signifies being diligent and focused on doing one's job well. Attentive is a term used to emphasize the need to pay close attention to something, and vigilant implies remaining watchful and alert to potential danger. In contrast to heedlessness, these antonyms convey a sense of responsibility, attentiveness, and caution.
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- attentive
- loving
- courteous
- cautious
- vigilant
- aware
- grateful
- deliberate
- disbelieving
- discreet
- careful
- chary
- conscious
- leery
- mindful
- noncommittal
- observant
- shy
- solicitous
- thoughtful
- wise
- worried
- appreciative
- distrustful
- intentional
- kindly
- knowledgeable
- reluctant
- suspicious
- wary
- watchful
- all
- concentrating
- considerate
- cautious; painstaking
- careful, guarded
- careful, cautious
- alert, awake
- respectful of others
- gentle, mannerly
- careless
- cautious, sensible
- expressing adoration
- attentive, aware
- unwilling to decide
- mannerly, civilized
- unenthusiastic, unwilling
- quiet and self-conscious
- caring, mindful
- careful, watchful
- on the lookout
- intelligent, reasonable
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
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attentive
- glued,
- observant,
- on the qui vive,
- preoccupied,
- Enrapt,
- on the lookout,
- pre-occupied,
- all ears,
- de voted,
- de-voted,
- hanging every word,
- hanging on every word,
- in tent,
- in-tent,
- more enrapt,
- more enthralled,
- more glued,
- more interested,
- most enrapt,
- most enthralled,
- most glued,
- most interested,
- on job,
- on one toes,
- on one's toes,
- on ones toes,
- on qui vive,
- on the job,
- pre occupied.
- loving
- courteous
-
cautious
- forethoughtful,
- gingerly,
- provident,
- pussyfoot,
- SAFER,
- safest,
- shrewdest,
- fore thoughtful,
- fore-thoughtful,
- hedging bets,
- hedging one bets,
- hedging one's bets,
- hedging ones bets,
- keeping on one toes,
- keeping on one's toes,
- keeping on ones toes,
- keeping on toes,
- keeping one toes,
- keeping one's toes,
- keeping ones toes,
- keeping toes,
- more forethoughtful,
- more pussyfoot,
- most forethoughtful,
- most pussyfoot,
- playing cool,
- playing it cool,
- taking easy,
- taking it easy,
- taking it slow,
- taking slow,
- thinking twice,
- walking eggs,
- walking on eggs,
- watching one step,
- watching one's step,
- watching ones step,
- watching out,
- watching step,
- with one eyes peeled,
- with one's eyes peeled,
- with ones eyes peeled.
- vigilant
-
aware
- know the score,
- know what's what,
- up on,
- wise to,
- go-go,
- in the know,
- go go,
- in know,
- in picture,
- in the picture,
- in to,
- know score,
- know what what,
- know whats what,
- knowhow,
- latched on,
- more appraised,
- more apprised,
- more go go,
- more go-go,
- more grounded,
- more in to,
- more into,
- more know-how,
- more knowhow,
- most appraised,
- most apprised,
- most go go,
- most go-go,
- most gogo,
- most grounded,
- most into,
- most know-how,
- most knowhow,
- tuned in.
- grateful
-
deliberate
- aforethought,
- prearranged,
- purposive,
- Designful,
- Predeterminate,
- Prepense,
- coldblooded,
- cold blooded,
- cut and dried,
- de liberate,
- de signed,
- de-liberate,
- de-signed,
- done on purpose,
- done purpose,
- ex press,
- ex-press,
- in tended,
- in-tended,
- more aforethought,
- more designed,
- more designful,
- more judged,
- more predesigned,
- more predeterminate,
- more projected,
- more purposed,
- more resolved,
- more schemed,
- more weighed,
- most designed,
- most designful,
- most judged,
- most pondered,
- most predeterminate,
- most prepense,
- most purposive,
- most reasoned,
- most resolved,
- most schemed,
- most weighed,
- pre designed,
- pre determinate,
- pre determined,
- pre meditated,
- pre-arranged,
- pre-designed,
- pre-determinate,
- pre-determined,
- pre-meditated,
- predesigned,
- re-solved,
- thought out,
- with forethought.
- disbelieving
- discreet
- careful
- chary
-
conscious
- in on,
- percipient,
- witting,
- supraliminal,
- alive to,
- sensitive to,
- able recognize,
- able to recognize,
- hep to,
- in right mind,
- more apperceptive,
- more felt,
- more percipient,
- more remarking,
- more supraliminal,
- more witting,
- most apperceptive,
- most felt,
- most percipient,
- most recognizing,
- most remarking,
- most supraliminal,
- most witting,
- re cognizing,
- re marking,
- re-cognizing,
- re-marking,
- supra liminal,
- supra-liminal,
- under standing,
- under-standing.
- leery
- mindful
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noncommittal
- unrevealing,
- Middle-ground,
- non-committal,
- buttoned up,
- clammed up,
- hush hush,
- hushhush,
- in communicable,
- in definite,
- in-communicable,
- in-definite,
- middleground,
- more even steven,
- more even-steven,
- more middle ground,
- more middle-ground,
- more on the fence,
- more on-the-fence,
- more temporizing,
- more unrevealing,
- more zipped,
- most even-steven,
- most evensteven,
- most middle ground,
- most middle-ground,
- most middleground,
- most on the fence,
- most on-the-fence,
- most temporizing,
- most unrevealing,
- most zipped,
- non committal,
- on-the-fence,
- un-revealing.
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observant
- advertent,
- clear-sighted,
- sharp-eyed,
- Intentive,
- wideawake,
- clearsighted,
- clear sighted,
- dis covering,
- dis-covering,
- eagle eyed,
- eagleeyed,
- more advertent,
- more clear-sighted,
- more clearsighted,
- more comprehending,
- more contemplating,
- more detecting,
- more discovering,
- more questioning,
- more sharp eyed,
- more sharp-eyed,
- more sharpeyed,
- more surveying,
- most advertent,
- most clear sighted,
- most clear-sighted,
- most clearsighted,
- most comprehending,
- most contemplating,
- most detecting,
- most discovering,
- most intentive,
- most questioning,
- most sharp eyed,
- most sharp-eyed,
- most surveying,
- not missing a trick,
- not missing trick,
- sharpeyed,
- wide awake.
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shy
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- unsocial,
- de mure,
- de-mure,
- more unassertive,
- more uneffusive,
- more unsocial,
- most introvert,
- most unassured,
- most unsocial,
- re tiring,
- re-tiring,
- self effacing,
- selfeffacing,
- un assertive,
- un assured,
- un effusive,
- un responsive,
- un social,
- un willing,
- un-assertive,
- un-assured,
- un-effusive,
- un-responsive,
- un-social,
- un-willing,
- uneffusive.
- solicitous
- thoughtful
- wise
- worried
- appreciative
- distrustful
- intentional
- kindly
- knowledgeable
- reluctant
- suspicious
- wary
- watchful
- all
- concentrating
- considerate
- cautious; painstaking
- careful, guarded
- careful, cautious
- alert, awake
- respectful of others
- gentle, mannerly
- careless
- cautious, sensible
- expressing adoration
- attentive, aware
- unwilling to decide
- mannerly, civilized
- unenthusiastic, unwilling
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quiet and self-conscious
- shy.
- caring, mindful
- careful, watchful
- on the lookout
-
intelligent, reasonable
- wise.
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
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wreathes
- Antonyms:
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