heedy

English

From heed +‎ -y.

heedy (comparative more heedy, superlative most heedy)

(obsolete) Heedful; attentive.
Antonym: unheedy
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 23, in The Essayes, […], book 1, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  
  A heedy Reader shall often discover in other mens compositions, perfections farre differing from the Authors meaning, and such as haply he never dreamed of, and illustrateth them with richer senses and more excellent constructions.

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