unheeded


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unheeded

(ʌnˈhiːdɪd)
adj
noticed or heard but disregarded
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unheeded - disregardedunheeded - disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice"
unnoticed - not noticed; "hoped his departure had passed unnoticed"
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unheeded

adjective ignored, disregarded, overlooked, forgotten, neglected, unnoticed, disobeyed, unobserved, untaken, unfollowed The advice of experts went unheeded.
heeded, regarded, noticed, remembered, noted, observed, obeyed
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Translations

unheeded

[ˈʌnˈhiːdɪd] ADJ [plea, warning] → desatendido
the warning went unheededla advertencia fue desatendida, no se hizo caso de la advertencia
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unheeded

[ˌʌnˈhiːdɪd] adj [warnings] → resté(e) lettre morte
to go unheeded [advice, warning, danger] → rester lettre morte
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unheeded

adjunbeachtet; to go unheededkeine Beachtung finden, auf taube Ohren stoßen
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unheeded

[ʌnˈhiːdɪd] adj the warning went unheededl'avvertimento fu ignorato
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References in classic literature ?
A woman sits and weaves with fingers deft Her story of the flower-lit stream, Threading the jasper gauze in dream, Till like faint smoke it dies; and she, bereft, Recalls the parting words that died Under the casement some far eventide, And stays the disappointed loom, While from the little lonely room Into the lonely night she peers, And, like the rain, unheeded fall her tears.
But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatabooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical.
Environed by them, while the Woodman and the Farmer worked unheeded, those two of the large jaws, and those other two of the plain and the fair faces, trod with stir enough, and carried their divine rights with a high hand.
Cleric went through canto after canto of the `Commedia,' repeating the discourse between Dante and his `sweet teacher,' while his cigarette burned itself out unheeded between his long fingers.
She had made one last appeal to friends, but, against the chill wall of their respectability, the voice of the erring outcast fell unheeded; and then she had gone to see her child - had held it in her arms and kissed it, in a weary, dull sort of way, and without betraying any particular emotion of any kind, and had left it, after putting into its hand a penny box of chocolate she had bought it, and afterwards, with her last few shillings, had taken a ticket and come down to Goring.
He drained the glass suddenly and collapsed in his chair, blinking his eyes across at the wedded couple while tears trickled unheeded down his cheeks.
Perceiving that, in his turn, he was unheeded, the faithful David followed the distracted sister, raising his voice again in sacred song, and sweeping the air to the measure, with his long arm, in diligent accompaniment.
He wailed his grief, unheeded, from the centre of the open space, for at least half an hour, and then came to live with Lop-Ear and me.
So tense was he, so bent upon the work he had to do, that the sweat stung his eyes unwiped, and unheeded rolled down his nose and spattered his saddle pommel.
Anne rose to her feet, with clasped hands, the tears still glistening on her cheeks; the dish towel she had been hemming slipped unheeded to the floor.
He called out to the steersman, but his warning voice was either unheard or unheeded. In the next moment they struck upon the rock.
The hall wore the unnatural appearance peculiar to well-kept houses suddenly invaded by illness: wraps and furs lay in heaps on the chairs, a doctor's bag and overcoat were on the table, and beside them letters and cards had already piled up unheeded.