0 not giving attention to a risk or possible difficulty:
Journalists had insisted on getting to the front line of the battle, heedless of the risks.
Heedless destruction of the rainforests is contributing to global warming.
1 not giving attention to a risk or difficulty:
They are pursuing that course heedless of the consequent harm that it will do to industrial relations.
This again is either culpably heedless or vindictive.
The opponents of coursing are organised and vociferous, heedless of truth or rational argument in their campaign against followers of this ancient sport.
They try to railroad it through, like some victorious power; they are heedless of democracy and of what is right.
And yet here is this board quite deliberately delaying payment heedless, it seems, of the needs of the claimants.
The idea that people in the third world procreate, heedless of consequences, reflects distasteful and unwarranted contempt for hundreds of millions of people.
Will anyone bring the railing accusation against the smaller towns that they are absolutely heedless of this question?
We believe that it is the heedless, careless antisocial actions that the order needs to target, not just those with deliberate intent.
