unheeded
- adjective
- /ʌnˈhidɪd/
- Because curricula are mandated at the state or district level, the NCSS charge is often unheeded at local levels.
- unheeded warnings
- go unheeded
It's a horrific moment because you know that your cries for help will go unheeded.
- It's a horrific moment because you know that your cries for help will go unheeded.
Examples
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Words spoken to the air tend to go unheeded.
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But what the CEO considers obvious may go completely unheeded by the team, unless they are pointed in that direction.
Academic text (1998) -
Similar decisions in the past have gone unheeded due to high costs associated with the technical aspects.
Blog text (3) -
Repeated requests from private relief agencies for medicine and medical supplies went unheeded.
Academic text (1993) -
But no one heard him amid all the other noise and confusion, and Tom's warning went unheeded.
Fiction book (1992) -
Sadly, European and U.N. warnings have gone unheeded without American-backed initiatives.
Academic text (1992) -
His shouts went unheeded among the thousands of cries rising up from the battlefield.
Fiction book (1992) -
The warnings of the American Irish emigration societies went unheeded, and for many naive young emigrants, the result was bitter disillusionment.
Academic text (1990) -
Many of the teacher's valuable suggestions went unheeded by the students during the project.
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Despite her clear warnings about the storm, they went unheeded and decided to travel anyway.
Synonyms
Not noticed because nobody listened
Other people do not see or pay attention to it
Left without anyone watching or caring for them
Not remembered or noticed and left alone
Without an address written on it or not dealt with yet
Not noticed or talked about by other people
Other people do not notice someone or something
Not seen by people or left out when people think about it
People do not notice it when it is important
Not noticed or given any attention
Not given proper attention and often ignored by others
People do not pay attention to a person or thing
Antonyms
How Heeded
Surface Forms
Morphology
unheeded = heeded (transparent) = un + heed + ed
The adjective is formed by negating the past-participle/adjective 'heeded' with 'un-', giving a direct meaning 'not given attention'.
Etymology
The word unheeded is made of un- 'not' and heed 'attention' and the same root appears in heedless, so if advice or a warning is unheeded it is simply 'not given attention'.