Home › Words › U › unheedunheedunheed means inattention.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, unheed ranks #6,906 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom un- + heed.nounInattention.e.g.“I learnt I had missed, by rash unheed, My track; that, so the Will decided, In life death, we should be divided, And at the sense I ached indeed.” — 1990, Joseph Hillis Miller, Tropes, parables, performatives: essays on twentieth-century literature:verbTo deliberately fail to heed or take notice of; disregard; ignore.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.unheedily 80% match — Heedlessly. vs unheed →heedless 68% match — Unaware; without noticing; careless; inattentive. vs unheed →misregardful 67% match — Heedless; unmindful; neglectful; uncaring. vs unheed →disregardful 67% match — Neglectful; negligent; heedless. vs unheed →unrecked 66% match — unheeded; disregarded vs unheed →disregard 66% match — The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something. vs unheed →misheed 65% match — To heed amiss; fail to heed. vs unheed →disregardant 64% match — Disregardful; negligent or heedless. vs unheed →