heedless

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HEE'DLESS, adjective Inattentive; careless; negligent of the means of safety; thoughtless; regardless; unobserving. We say, heedless children; heedless of danger or surprise. The heedless lover does not know, Whose eyes they are that wound him so.
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