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adjective
heed·​ful | \ ˈhÄ“d-fÉ™l How to pronounce heedful (audio) \

Definition of heedful

: taking heed : attentive heedful of what they were doing
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Other Words from heedful

heedfully \ ˈhÄ“d-​fÉ™-​lÄ“ How to pronounce heedfully (audio) \ adverb
heedfulness noun

Examples of heedful in a Sentence

heedful of snakes, we watched our footing while walking through the tall grass to the lake's edge

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 McMillan initially promised to train fissile material handlers to be more heedful of plutonium-handling perils, for example, and to bring the inventory and safety documents guiding their work up to date. — R. Jeffrey Smith, Science | AAAS, "Safety problems at a Los Alamos laboratory," 30 June 2017

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