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)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe
• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to HEADLONG)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• 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.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• 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.
• 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.