Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Showing attention; heedful.
- adjective Showing deference.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or paying regard.
- Taking notice; heedful; observing with care; attentive.
- Synonyms Observant, mindful, watchful, careful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Heedful; attentive; observant.
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- adjective
Respectful . - adjective
Watchful ,observant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing deference
Etymologies
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Examples
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And I submit that you, like me, need to start being “regardful” of the cost – to YOURSELF, not just the cost to others (which seems to be in the currency of disappointment, most times).
Princesses Never Give Up, Until They Totally Do - Her Bad Mother 2010
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Roumiyah, a Greek girl, by name Sofiyah or Sophia,145 whom the King of Roum and Lord of Cæsarea had sent to King Omar as a present, together with great store of gifts and of rarities: she was the fairest of favour and loveliest of all his handmaids and the most regardful of her honour; and she was gifted with a wit as penetrating as her presence was fascinating.
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He watched several gulls veering near and saw a hundred other, gulls positioned on a slope, all facing the same way, motionless, regardful, joined in consciousness, in beautiful empty birdness, waiting for the signal to fly.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He watched several gulls veering near and saw a hundred other, gulls positioned on a slope, all facing the same way, motionless, regardful, joined in consciousness, in beautiful empty birdness, waiting for the signal to fly.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He watched several gulls veering near and saw a hundred other, gulls positioned on a slope, all facing the same way, motionless, regardful, joined in consciousness, in beautiful empty birdness, waiting for the signal to fly.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Mr. Crisparkle at such times, regardful of the slumbers of the china shepherdess.
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She was so devoted, she had such a quick perception of what it would be well to say, and what it would be well to leave unsaid; she was so forgetful of herself, and so regardful of the sorrow about her, that I held her in a sort of veneration.
David Copperfield 2007
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The ladies and my lord are intirely in my interests, and regardful of my punctilio.
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Now it might have been supposed that a Circle — proud of his ancestry and regardful for a posterity which might possibly issue hereafter in a
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No one hears a word from your mouth unbecoming the character of a polite gentleman; and I shall always be very regardful of what falls from mine.
Pamela 2006
pomegranate commented on the word regardful
vs. regardless
January 11, 2008