headlong
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6.4
- adverb
- /ˈhɛdˌlɔŋ/
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precipitadamente
- When someone runs headlong into the ocean during a storm, rather than getting on a plane to fame and fortune, I guess they're trying to tell you something.
- rushed headlong
- ran headlong
You, you just like you launch yourself headlong into a defense of the oppressed and vilifying the oppressor.
- You, you just like you launch yourself headlong into a defense of the oppressed and vilifying the oppressor.
- It's going to run headlong into this collision with Enlightenment ideology and with the Age of revolution.
- I'm finding, you know, it's about taking risks of like getting into like headlong into a relationship and being stable in it.
- But, you know, you also run headlong into the DOJ policy, which is ironically was violated back.
- But you know, I think, I think the the, the amount of capital just running headlong into this space, inevitably some of it's going to be misplaced.
Examples
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Armed with little more than her enthusiasm, she charges headlong into London, baffling the locals.
Blog text (32) -
That's me, the groom, about to charge headlong into the jaws of responsibility.
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Maybe for once in my life I should just throw myself headlong into opportunity and see what happens.
Fiction book (2000) -
We need time to explore, to think, before we rush headlong into...
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Yet both men ran headlong into American power and came away bruised.
Academic text (1998) -
In a full panic, they ran headlong down the hall, hoping to wind up at another stairwell.
Fiction book (1991) -
I'm one of those people capable of plunging headlong into the abyss to feel finally free, even if it's a useless freedom.
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Grappling and tangling with things, we rush headlong toward the end, and there's no stopping it.
Blog text (8) -
Consequently, they blundered headlong into the cavern walls, careened off boulders, and stumbled over rocks.
Fiction book (1991) -
He charged headlong into the crowd, eager to join the celebration.
Synonyms
30
4.6
In a way that shows no care about danger or the results
19
3.3
In a way that moves with your face going in front or that shows you act quickly without thinking
7
5.6
Act quickly without thinking about the bad results
1
4.2
In a hurry and moving clumsily without control
1
8.3
Very quickly without careful thought
In a quick, thoughtless way without thinking carefully
Antonyms
Idioms
How Reckless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the adverb headlong is to think of going head 'first' into something. So it came to mean moving very fast or acting 'without thinking'.