All 6 Uses of
heed
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Almost every criminal is subject to a failure of will and reasoning power by a childish and phenomenal heedlessness, at the very instant when prudence and caution are most essential.†
Chpt 1.6standard suffix: The suffix "-lessness" in heedlessness means in a state without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearlessness, powerlessness, and harmlessness.
- Allow me to explain that I have been living with her for nearly three years and at first...at first...for why should I not confess it, at the very beginning I promised to marry her daughter, it was a verbal promise, freely given...she was a girl...indeed, I liked her, though I was not in love with her...a youthful affair in fact... that is, I mean to say, that my landlady gave me credit freely in those days, and I led a life of...I was very heedless...†
Chpt 2.1 *heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- "The same old woman," Raskolnikov went on in the same whisper, not heeding Zametov's explanation, "about whom you were talking in the police-office, you remember, when I fainted.†
Chpt 2.6heeding = paying close attention to; or doing what is suggested
- But at the beginning of an acquaintance, as you know, one is apt to be more heedless and stupid.†
Chpt 6.4heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- How can you undertake such obligations so heedlessly, Sofya Semyonovna?†
Chpt 6.6standard suffix: The suffix "-lessly" in heedlessly means in a manner that is without. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmlessly, fearlessly, and remorselessly.
- And she had destroyed herself, crushed by an insult that had appalled and amazed that childish soul, had smirched that angel purity with unmerited disgrace and torn from her a last scream of despair, unheeded and brutally disregarded, on a dark night in the cold and wet while the wind howled.... Svidrigailov came to himself, got up from the bed and went to the window.†
Chpt 6.6unheeded = ignoredstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unheeded means not and reverses the meaning of heeded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
pay close attention to; or to do what is suggested -- especially with regard to a warning or other advice