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Synonyms for headlong
ˈhɛdˌlɔŋ, -ˌlɒŋ
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Princeton's WordNet
hasty, headlong(adj)
excessively quick
"made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
Synonyms:
overhasty, precipitous, headfirst, precipitate, precipitant, hastyheadfirst, headlong(adverb)
with the head foremost
"a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool"
headlong, headfirst(adverb)
with the head foremost
"the runner slid headlong into third base"
Synonyms:
precipitately, headfirst, rashlyheadlong, precipitately(adverb)
at breakneck speed
"burst headlong through the gate"
Synonyms:
precipitately, headfirst, rashlyheadlong, rashly(adverb)
in a hasty and foolhardy manner
"he fell headlong in love with his cousin"
Synonyms:
precipitately, headfirst, rashly
Dictionary of English Synonymes
headlong(ad.)
Synonyms:
rashly, hastily, precipitately, head-foremost, thoughtlessly, without deliberation
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
headlong(adv)
Synonyms:
headforemost, precipitately, rashly, pell-mell, helter-skelter, confusedly
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "headlong":
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | 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?
While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
We're trying to find examples of the most extreme environments we can on Earth, we're trying to get into places where biology runs headlong into the inorganic part of the Earth, where any nutrient you want to pick up you've got to get from a rock or the atmosphere.
Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.
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.
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