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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
heedful is an adjective meaning "taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention". It carries 3 recorded senses.
taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
“heedful of the warnings”
“so heedful a writer”
“heedful of what they were doing”
cautiously attentive
“careful of her feelings”
“heedful of his father's advice”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heedful come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.