HEED
Dictionary entry overview: What does heed mean?
• HEED (noun)
The noun HEED has 1 sense:
1. paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
Familiarity information: HEED used as a noun is very rare.
• HEED (verb)
The verb HEED has 1 sense:
1. pay close attention to; give heed to
Familiarity information: HEED used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HEED (noun)
Meaning:
Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
attentiveness; heed; paying attention; regard
Context examples:
his attentiveness to her wishes / he spends without heed to the consequences
Hypernyms ("heed" is a kind of...):
attending; attention (the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others)
Attribute:
heedless; thoughtless; unheeding (marked by or paying little heed or attention)
attentive; heedful; paying attention; thoughtful (taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heed"):
advertence; advertency (the process of being heedful)
• HEED (verb)
Meaning:
Pay close attention to; give heed to
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
heed; listen; mind
Context example:
Heed the advice of the old men
Hypernyms (to "heed" is one way to...):
obey (be obedient to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
