headlong
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6.8
- adjective
- /ˈhɛdˌlɔŋ/
:
apresurado
- Two other sisters, their armor battered and their faces dirty, accompanied their captain in this headlong advance.
- a headlong rush
- a headlong pursuit
So he says it's when occasions demand of him that he check the headlong course of pleasure.
- So he says it's when occasions demand of him that he check the headlong course of pleasure.
Examples
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Reed was the kind of man honored by his companions for being headlong, fearless, and hardcore.
Academic text (2002) -
Even Brigit and Colleen halted their headlong advance to stare in astonishment.
Fiction book (1992) -
Yet she did learn something from this headlong commitment to the attempt to realize an ideal.
Fiction book (1996) -
But, then, with a headlong rush, they headed out of the circle.
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Mont's headlong flight took him down the stairs three steps at a time.
Fiction book (1992) -
A sob choked between her teeth; she ran out in wild, headlong flight.
Fiction book (1996) -
New Humanists deplored the headlong rush away from the unmediated experience of the world.
Fiction book (2002) -
As they descended the slope, Ennis felt he was in a slow-motion, but headlong, irreversible fall.
Fiction book (2000) -
Crafts condemned what he considered his society's headlong pursuit of pleasure and obsessive emphasis on the accumulation of wealth.
Academic text (2002) -
He made a headlong decision to quit his job without having another lined up.
Synonyms
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3.9
Acting quickly without much thought or care
19
3.3
In a way that moves with your face going in front or that shows you act quickly without thinking
1
7.9
Not caring about danger or bad results
Antonyms
Idioms
How Reckless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The adjective headlong comes from the same idea of going head 'first'. That's why calling an action or decision headlong means it was done very quickly and often 'without thinking about the consequences'.