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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing" [syn: heedful, attentive, thoughtful, paying attention] [ant: heedless, unheeding] n
1: paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences" [syn: attentiveness, heed, regard, paying attention] [ant: heedlessness, inattentiveness]