unheeded

adjective

un·​heed·​ed ˌən-ˈhē-dəd How to pronounce unheeded (audio)
: not attended or listened to : not heeded
unheeded warnings

Examples of unheeded in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Yet these warnings have gone largely unheeded: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unwilling to do anything that causes his coalition—which depends on Smotrich and Ben-Gvir—to collapse. Shira Efron, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024 It’s known as a dramatic display of party disunity, and as moderates’ prescient, but unheeded, warning to their party. Marsha E. Barrett / Made By History, TIME, 15 July 2024 That would leave Macron in office but no longer possessed of much power — unheeded, unheralded and unloved. Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 1 July 2024 The ecclesiastical loopholes that explain her choices are less important than the unheeded despair that compels her to make them in the first place. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for unheeded 

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Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unheeded was in 1611

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“Unheeded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unheeded. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.

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