What's the difference between headless and heedless?

Headless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.
  • (a.) Destitute of a chief or leader.
  • (a.) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That it comes exactly 100 days from the opening ceremony of the Rio Games merely underlines the urgency now that the team has been left in effect headless.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It stands inert as a headless electric toothbrush, but less useful.’ Well?
  • (3) There will be burlesque workshops for adults, the Magnificent Insect Circus Museum and five performances of Sideshow Illusions featuring a headless lady.
  • (4) To examine the influence of the head and tail domains on the structure and assembly properties of nuclear lamins, we have engineered "headless," "tailless," and "rod" chicken lamin B2 cDNAs and expressed them in Escherichia coli.
  • (5) Agencies are headless, leaks are rampant, and aides are congratulated for lying on TV.
  • (6) This unconditioned response affects the headless cockroaches avoid shocks in the lifting task by escape learning, whereas they avoid shocks in the lowering task by true avoidance learning.
  • (7) Following induction of long-term potentiation in subfield CA1 of the hippocampal slice from 26-month-old rats, shaft synapse numbers increased by 44% and sessile spine synapses (synapses on stubby, headless spines) by 72%, with the more common mushroom-shaped spine synapses statistically unaltered.
  • (8) I’m going to be running around like a headless chicken later,” she says, looking at the afternoon’s roster of short appointments.
  • (9) It is concluded that the headless cockroach is useful for understanding the motor mechanisms underlying righting and walking but is not of value in assessing the functions of proprioceptive feedback.
  • (10) The site quickly became unavailable, but screenshots circulated online showed the group's trademark headless suit and a message addressed to the Syrian people saying that "the world stands with you against the brutal regime."
  • (11) Fragments fused soon after isolation formed "headless" regenerates but had normal body proportions.
  • (12) And when Nick Clegg suggested that the next generation of nuclear power stations may never be built because the recommended higher and more costly safety standards would make them too expensive, Chris Huhne launched an astonishing attack on his party leader , accusing him of behaving like a "headless chicken" on the issue.
  • (13) Whereas dimers made of the truncated B2 headless and rod lamins had lost their propensity to associate head-to-tail, tailless lamin B2 dimers revealed an enhanced head-to-tail association.
  • (14) The Conservative housing spokesman, Grant Shapps, said: "We welcome anything that will genuinely keep people in their homes, but ministers are guilty of running around like headless chickens announcing complicated, confusing and often contradictory plans, which later turn out to help far fewer people than the headlines would have you believe."
  • (15) It was because I was like a headless chicken in the first 10 minutes.” Dier is remembering his baptism as a defensive midfielder and the manager who gave it to him at Sporting Lisbon on 2 March 2013.
  • (16) Just four years later, Libya is witnessing an explosion in violence, led by al-Qaida and Islamic State (Isis): the gruesome murder of Egyptian Christians , devastating suicide bombings , the kidnapping of western oil workers and the discovery of countless headless soldiers and civil-society activists in Benghazi.
  • (17) The cover comes from a "headless" gull-shaped, forehead flap.
  • (18) In each case, skeletal metastases were extensive, but the calvaria was not involved, resulting in a headless appearance.
  • (19) But Paul Edden, who runs a franchise in Staffordshire, told of rivals who pay the minimum wage and run staff around "like headless chickens".
  • (20) blog alongside a photo of a headless Labour MP, and the most visible woman anywhere near the government remains Samantha Cameron, who could this week be found baking cupcakes for a royal wedding street party.

Heedless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, heedless of widespread international opposition, has again carried out a nuclear test, to which the Chinese government expresses its firm opposition," the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.
  • (2) Like the kind of heedless, scatter-gun approach pursued by America and Britain that transformed al-Qaida from a small band of fairly well-educated violent extremists into a youthful social movement that appeals to many thousands of disaffected Muslim immigrants in the western diaspora, and many more millions who are economically and politically frustrated back home.
  • (3) For five nights, Saturday to Wednesday, the Ferguson city and St Louis county police departments betrayed hostility, incomprehension and fear as they confronted protesters, heedless that the militarised response had stoked anger and radicalism over Brown's death.
  • (4) This sense of connectedness gives rise to deep feelings of love, awe, humility and reverence that are truly spiritual and feed the inner being, but followed by shame at humankind’s heedless arrogance and shortsightedness.
  • (5) He categorized the country’s problems as a series of “bubbles” akin to the housing bubble or the dotcom bubble and criticized the “heedlessness” of the elite in ignoring them.
  • (6) Our children can’t stop their friends (or enemies) from posting drunken photos or a heedless rant, barnacles that will cling to them for years.” Privacy, he argues, “allows us to reinvent ourselves, or at least maintains the valuable illusion that reinvention is possible.
  • (7) Its flagship store on Regent Street had the air of a venerable institution - dowdy, British, heedless of what was going on outside its own doors.
  • (8) The administration feels untouchable; it heedlessly oppresses prisoners with growing severity.
  • (9) A fortunate baby boomer, mine had been a life that was, I suspect, not so very different from the lives of any number of thirty- and fortysomethings in the West: hedonistic, heedless, happy-go-lucky, helter-skelter.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Theresa May launches her Conservative leadership bid: ‘Brexit means Brexit’ Some had their heads in the hands from the shock, others were openly insulting both Gove and Johnson, heedless of the journalists in the crowd, and shouting rumours to each other about how the Machiavellian moves had come about.
  • (11) Oh, for just hoicking out a bag of Taylors of Harrogate , sticking the kettle on and sniffing the milk like one of The Sweeney before splashing it into the mug heedless of danger to life or limb.
  • (12) His reaction suggests that he remains heedless, and that the tragedy of Helmut Kohl may not have reached its final act.
  • (13) Japan's polarised industrial culture, which veers between the heedless pursuit of short- term interest, on the one hand, and confessions, tears, and apparently heartfelt apologies when things go wrong, on the other, makes it an extreme case.
  • (14) "Manning's conduct was of a heedless nature that made it actually and imminently dangerous to others," Lind told the court .
  • (15) This is the same Blair whose sofa government and heedless attitude to parliamentary opposition degraded his New Labour brand and led to such policy achievements as the Iraq war.
  • (16) Apparently heedless of such nuances and of his need for support if he is to negotiate his way out this mess, Assad poured contempt on fellow Arab leaders in his speech.
  • (17) These studies show that voluntary attention in the form of inattention, "heedless negligence," or failure to cooperate, is not the specific attentional quality that is disordered in SPEM of schizophrenics and their relatives.
  • (18) Worse still, in real life rather than mythology, King Sisyphus himself gets to skip the original rock-rolling punishment for being crafty, cruel, and hubristic, very like the heedless financial markets.
  • (19) But when we hear them from the stage, in a show that pumps abuse by the tsunami, we're laughing at how anyone can be so warped, so insensitive, so heedless of censure or consequence.
  • (20) The EU is constitutionally wedded to the outdated and harmful project of heedless economic growth and industrial over-development – at a time when we need to stop living as if we have three planets to spare and not hurtling ever faster over the precipice.