What's the difference between heedless and needless?

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.

Needless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no need.
  • (a.) Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
  • (a.) Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people' Read more In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.
  • (2) Needless to say, the place is now awash in self-flagellation.
  • (3) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
  • (4) Acknowledging that such needless expense is meat and drink to enemies of the European idea, MEPs led by the parliament's vice-president, Edward McMillan-Scott, have launched a "Single Seat" campaign to abandon "Alcatraz", as the Strasbourg building is known to some of its inmates.
  • (5) Its chief executive, Andy Cole, warned: "The lives of England's sickest babies are at risk by needless cuts to the neonatal nursing workforce."
  • (6) It permits use of both feet to operate surgical modalities, decreases microscope positioning time, and decreases needless hand movements.
  • (7) Shelvey had been told before the game by his manager to “wise up” against needless bookings.
  • (8) Cameroon midfielder Alex Song was sent off before half-time for a needless elbow in the back of Croatia's Mario Mandzukic near the halfway line, leaving his side to battle with 10 men for the majority of the game.
  • (9) Needless pain and anxiety can therefore be avoided for many AML patients.
  • (10) Needlessly high doses are bound to cause avoidable unwanted effects in a proportion of patients.
  • (11) Needless to say, BoKlok's brains have grappled with the conundrum.
  • (12) Millions of British will pay a higher price – the needless squandering of their lives.
  • (13) In some cases these errors led to needless radiotherapy and to an unnecessarily poor prognosis being given.
  • (14) This clause has given developers a much freer licence to force their plans through the system regardless of constraints, on the basis that local planning policies represent needless “burdens” on their pockets.
  • (15) 4.32pm BST Summary Here's a summary of what the president said: • The shutdown hurt the economy and families in a needless "self-inflicted crisis."
  • (16) A union spokesman said: "Unite has made recommendations to Ineos as way to save jobs and prevent needless harm to this plant and the local community.
  • (17) Just look at the needless intermediary company created by Dmitry Firtash in 2004 to buy gas from Russia and sell it to Ukraine, making more than $600m a year.
  • (18) Use of this technic will spare some patients needless radical procedures and should improve long-term cure rates by identifying those patients with truly localized disease for curative resections.
  • (19) If Moyes felt reprieved when Andros Townsend cut inside and curled a late shot wide, his afternoon was ruined when Paddy McNair needlessly conceded a free-kick, taken near the corner flag by Lee Chung-yong and, deep into stoppage time, an unmarked Benteke rose imperiously to clinch it.
  • (20) The assumption that it is often prevents informed clinical intervention and leads to needless suffering.