heedlessly

1. 1.

   without care or concern

   “carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment”

   Synonymscarelessly

Questions about heedlessly

What does heedlessly mean?

heedlessly means "without care or concern".

How many syllables are in heedlessly?

heedlessly has 3 syllables and divides as heed-les-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for heedlessly?

Close synonyms include carelessly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heedlessly a common word?

heedlessly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.