Synonyms for heed
hidheed

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1. heed

   Care concerns what we possess; anxiety, often, what we do not; riches bring many cares; poverty brings many anxieties. Care also signifies watchful attention, in view of possible harm; as, "This side up with care;" "Take care of yourself;" or, as a sharp warning, "Take care!" Caution has a sense of possible harm and risk only to be escaped, if at all, by careful deliberation and observation. Care inclines to the positive, caution to the negative; care is shown in doing, caution largely in not doing. Precaution is allied with care, prudence with caution; a man rides a dangerous horse with care; caution will keep him from mounting the horse; precaution looks to the saddle-girths, bit and bridle, and all that may make the rider secure. Circumspection is watchful observation and calculation, but without the timidity implied in caution. Concern denotes a serious interest, milder than anxiety; as, concern for the safety of a ship at sea. Heed implies attention without disquiet; it is now largely displaced by attention and care. Solicitude involves especially the element of desire, not expressed in anxiety, and of hopefulness, not implied in care. A parent feels constant solicitude for his children's welfare, anxiety as to dangers that threaten it, with care to guard against them. Watchfulness recognizes the possibility of danger, wariness the probability. A man who is not influenced by caution to keep out of danger may display great wariness in the midst of it. Care has also the sense of responsibility, with possible control, as expressed in charge, management, oversight; as, these children are under my care; send the money to me in care of the firm. Compare ALARM; ANXIETY; PRUDENCE.

   Synonyms:
   anxiety, attention, care, caution, charge, circumspection, concern, direction, forethought, management, oversight, perplexity, precaution, prudence, solicitude, trouble, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness, worry

   Antonyms:
   carelessness, disregard, heedlessness, inattention, indifference, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight, recklessness, remissness, slight

   Preposition:
   Take care of the house; for the future; about the matter.

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1. heedverb

   Synonyms:
   mind, regard, notice, attend to, observe

   Antonyms:
   disregard, slight, ignore

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1. attentiveness, heed, regard, paying attentionverb

   paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

   "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences"

   Synonyms:
   paying attention, wish, esteem, regard, attentiveness, gaze, respect, compliments

2. heed, mind, listenverb

   pay close attention to; give heed to

   "Heed the advice of the old men"

   Synonyms:
   listen, take heed, take care, hear, beware, bear in mind, mind

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1. heedverb

   Synonyms:
   regard, mind, notice, mark, observe, attend to, give heed to, pay attention to, take notice of

2. heednoun

   Synonyms:
   regard, notice, care, attention, caution, heedfulness, watchfulness, wariness, vigilance, circumspection, observation

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1. heednoun

   Synonyms:
   regard, attention, consideration, notice

   Antonyms:
   disregard, inattention

2. heedverb

   Synonyms:
   mind, regard, consider, notice, attend

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1. List of paraphrases for "heed":

   listen, attention, hear

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1. Jatuporn Prompan:

   I don't believe a word Suthep says, he will upset a period of calm we've had. I only hope the government does not heed Suthep and sticks to its promise of an election next year.

2. Chokwe Antar Lumumba:

   We need our residents to take heed to these warnings and move out quickly.

3. Rule of Life:

   It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

4. The ICC:

   It is long overdue for you to heed the cries of the victims of rape and sexual abuse, torture, mass displacement and other inhumane suffering Darfurians continue to endure.

5. Samuel Alito:

   It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.