Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unheeded
IPA transcription: [ənh'idɪd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ignored, neglected, unheeded
    Meaning: disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice"
Usage examples
  • Her reproaches passed by me unheeded.
  • Though her presence was altogether an intrusion, it was unheeded.
  • "Which may have pointed to the midsummer sunrise," said Dr. Martineau, unheeded.
  • Mary's eyes were bent upon the floor, and tears were falling over her flushed cheeks, unheeded and unchecked.
  • She spoke in a whisper, trusting that in the general hubbub of the crowd her words would remain unheeded by all, save the man at her side.
  • The other dragged at the silver chain about her neck until the rough links pierced her flesh, and the red drops fell unheeded on the snow of her breast.
  • It was one of those wild streams that lavish, among our romantic solitudes, unheeded beauties enough to fill the sketch-book of a hunter of the picturesque.
  • She heaved a deep sigh, like one who had long been oppressed with the heavy weight of constant self-control, and she allowed a few tears to fall unheeded down her cheeks.
  • I remember a fellow at Trinity, the merriest of all our set at a wine-party, who, alone with his ink-pot, was for ever enacting the part of the unheeded poet, complaining of the hard hearts and tuneless ears of his generation.
  • Duncan soon detected their searching, but stolen, looks which, in truth, scanned his person and attire inch by inch; leaving no emotion of the countenance, no gesture, no line of the paint, nor even the fashion of a garment, unheeded, and without comment.