Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for heed
Synonyms for heed: regard and listen. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for heed
- regardnoun, in the sense "paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)"
- listenverb, in the sense "pay close attention to"
Two senses of heed, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
He spends without heed to the consequences.
The true synonym
regard
Same sentence, swapped: He spends without regard to the consequences.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- intercept
- hesitation
- discretion
pay close attention to
Heed the advice of the old men.
The true synonym
listen
Same sentence, swapped: Listen the advice of the old men.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for heed in the sentence quoted.
- comply
- remark
- hedge
Where heed turns up in the game
heed is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where heed is the trap
- diligencenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is industry, in the sense "persevering determination to perform a task", and heed is on the board beside it.
- hesitationnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is reluctance, in the sense "a certain degree of unwillingness", and heed is on the board beside it.
Play heed
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so heed reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from thinking and knowing at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. heed carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.