Heedless vs Headless - What's the difference?
heedless | headless |
Unaware, without noticing.
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*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day.A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless ." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.
Without a head; decapitated.
Without a head in the sense of leadership.
(linguistics, of a phrase or compound) Not having a head morpheme or word.
(computing) Running without a user interface; specifically , running without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
* 2003 , William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003 , Addison-Wesley, ISBN 978-0-7357-1158-7,
* 2007 , Carla Schroder, Linux Networking Cookbook , O’Reilly Media (2008), ISBN 978-0-596-10248-7,
* 2010 , Charles Bell et al., MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers , O'Reilly Media, ISBN 978-0-596-80730-6,
(of beer) Without a head of foam.
(obsolete) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash.
As adjectives the difference between heedless and headless
is that heedless is unaware, without noticing while headless is without a head; decapitated.heedless
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(en adjective)Derived terms
* heedlessnessheadless
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(-)- How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?
- The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.
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. Used for console redirection in headless servers.
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- Routers typically run headless , without a keyboard or monitor.
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- This is not unexpected for a Windows system running as a virtual machine or a headless server
- Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness in condemning. — Spenser.