Word Meanings - HEADLONG - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong. Acts i. 18. 2. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation. 3. Hastily; without delay or respite.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HEADLONG)
- Hasty
- Speedy
- rapid
- superficial
- hurried
- irascible
- impetuous
- reckless
- headlong
- crude
- incomplete
- undeveloped
- immature
- swift
- precipitate
- fiery
- passionate
- slight
- quick
- excitable
- rash
- cursory
- Plunge
- Dip
- dive
- douse
- duck
- submerge
- immerse
- sink
- overwhelm
- thrust under
- pitch headlong
- Precipitous
- Steep
- abrupt
- sheer
- perpendicular
- beetling
- dangerous
- Swift
- Rapid
- speedy
- accelerated
- nimble
- expeditious
- fleet
- fast
- ready
- eager
- alert
- prompt
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HEADLONG)
Related words: (words related to HEADLONG)
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An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - PRECIPITATELY
In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift. - FLEET
1. A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London. Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets. Matthewes. 2. A former prison in London, - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - PROMPT-BOOK
The book used by a prompter of a theater. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - BARK BEETLE
A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - CLICK BEETLE
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