unheeded

adjective

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

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Tolstoy died, at eighty-two, in a railway station on November 20, 1910, his words unheeded. Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025 Bullitt succeeded in stiffening Reynaud’s resolve to save the city, but his simultaneous pleas to Roosevelt went largely unheeded. Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015 His appeals, and those of subsequent Mexican leaders, went largely unheeded. Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025 For years, civil liberties groups have been calling on the federal government to protect the private information of individuals, but those calls have gone mostly unheeded. Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2021 See All Example Sentences for unheeded

Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above

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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 25 Jun. 2025.

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