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Synonyms for headlong
ˈhɛdˌlɔŋ, -ˌlɒŋhead·long
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Princeton's WordNet
hasty, headlongadjective
excessively quick
"made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
Synonyms:
overhasty, precipitous, headfirst, precipitate, precipitant, hastyheadfirst, headlongadverb
with the head foremost
"a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool"
headlong, headfirstadverb
with the head foremost
"the runner slid headlong into third base"
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precipitately, headfirst, rashlyheadlong, precipitatelyadverb
at breakneck speed
"burst headlong through the gate"
Synonyms:
precipitately, headfirst, rashlyheadlong, rashlyadverb
in a hasty and foolhardy manner
"he fell headlong in love with his cousin"
Synonyms:
precipitately, headfirst, rashly
Dictionary of English Synonymes
headlongadjective
Synonyms:
rashly, hastily, precipitately, head-foremost, thoughtlessly, without deliberation
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
headlongadverb
Synonyms:
headforemost, precipitately, rashly, pell-mell, helter-skelter, confusedly
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "headlong":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#32405 | hasty | |
#41439 | precipitate | |
#52406 | headlong | |
#75592 | precipitous | |
#94355 | headfirst | |
#123915 | rashly | |
#260579 | precipitately | |
#285789 | precipitant |
How to use headlong in a sentence?
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
The Macron agenda -- more money, more taxation, more military power, foreign policy without national veto -- everything Macron is talking about runs into a headlong collision with the way the peoples of Europe are feeling.
Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.
Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller:
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise founders of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
Pelosi's Taiwan visit is tainting sentiment today. And amid escalating tensions in Taiwan Strait and deepening worries about a global economic slowdown, investors are diving headlong into Stephen Innes bonds, no party wants a real war, but the risk of mishap or even aggressive war game escalation is real, which could always lead to a tactical mistake.
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