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UNHEEDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unheeded mean?
• UNHEEDED (adjective)
The adjective UNHEEDED has 1 sense:
1. disregarded
Familiarity information: UNHEEDED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disregarded
Synonyms:
Context example:
her ignored advice
Similar:
unnoticed (not noticed)
Context examples
The clubs fell upon them unheeded.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
But his words were unheeded, no shot was fired, and the last boarder made good his escape and disappeared with the rest into the wood.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, impatient snarl in reply.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I bethought myself to go upstairs and see how the dying woman sped, who lay there almost unheeded: the very servants paid her but a remittent attention: the hired nurse, being little looked after, would slip out of the room whenever she could.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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