"headlong" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈhɛd.lɒŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɛd.lɔŋ/ [General-American], /ˈhɛd.lɑŋ/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: En-us-headlong.ogg Forms: more headlong [comparative], most headlong [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛdlɒŋ Etymology: From Middle English hedlong, alteration of hedling, heedling, hevedlynge (“headlong”), assimilated to long. More at headling. Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|hedlong}} Middle English hedlong Head templates: {{en-adj}} headlong (comparative more headlong, superlative most headlong)
  1. Precipitous. Translations (precipitous): прибързан (pribǎrzan) (Bulgarian)
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  2. Plunging downwards head foremost. Translations (plunging downwards head foremost): с главата напред (s glavata napred) (Bulgarian), med hode først (Norwegian), neowol (Old English), de cabeza (Spanish)
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  3. Rushing forward without restraint. Translations (rushing forward without restraint): стремителен (stremitelen) (Bulgarian), буен (buen) (Bulgarian), hals over hode (Norwegian), onbesonnen (Plautdietsch)
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  4. (figuratively) Reckless; impetuous. Tags: figuratively
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: headlongness, headlongs

Adverb

IPA: /ˈhɛd.lɒŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɛd.lɔŋ/ [General-American], /ˈhɛd.lɑŋ/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: En-us-headlong.ogg
Rhymes: -ɛdlɒŋ Etymology: From Middle English hedlong, alteration of hedling, heedling, hevedlynge (“headlong”), assimilated to long. More at headling. Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|hedlong}} Middle English hedlong Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} headlong (not comparable)
  1. With the head first or down. Tags: not-comparable Translations (with the head first or down): kop eerste (Afrikaans), с главата напред (s glavata napred) (Bulgarian), de cap (Catalan), amb cap davant (Catalan), pää edellä (Finnish), päistikkaa (Finnish), la tête la première (French), mit dem Kopf zuerst (German), i ndiaidh do chinn (Irish), a testa in avanti (Italian), praeceps (Latin), tūpou (Maori), med hode først (Norwegian Bokmål), hodestups (Norwegian Bokmål), neowol (Old English), com a cabeça erguida (Portuguese), голово́й вперёд (golovój vperjód) (Russian), naglavce (Serbo-Croatian), naglavačke (Serbo-Croatian), de cabeza (Spanish), huvudstupa (Swedish), kafa üstü (Turkish)
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  2. With an unrestrained forward motion. Tags: not-comparable Translations (with an unrestrained forward motion): halsoorkop (Afrikaans), ἰταμός (itamós) (Ancient Greek), стремително (stremitelno) (Bulgarian), päätä pahkaa (Finnish), päistikkaa (Finnish), kopfüber (German), i ndiaidh do chinn (Irish), hals over hode (Norwegian), na oślep (Polish), сломя́ го́лову (slomjá gólovu) (Russian), очертя́ го́лову (očertjá gólovu) (Russian), стремгла́в (stremgláv) (Russian), опроме́тью (oprométʹju) (Russian), стреми́тельно (stremítelʹno) (Russian), strmoglavce (Serbo-Croatian)
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  3. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; in haste, hastily. Tags: not-comparable Translations (in haste, hastily, without deliberation): halsoorkop (Afrikaans), 𐔱𐕒𐕚𐕍𐔰 (bosq̇a) (Aghwan), прибързано (pribǎrzano) (Bulgarian), необмислено (neobmisleno) (Bulgarian), impete (Esperanto), Hals über Kopf (German), kopfüber (German), patiko (Maori), сломя́ го́лову (slomjá gólovu) (Russian), очертя́ го́лову (očertjá gólovu) (Russian), bezglavo (Serbo-Croatian), de cabeza (Spanish), wantewante (Sranan Tongo), langalanga (Sranan Tongo)
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Verb

IPA: /ˈhɛd.lɒŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɛd.lɔŋ/ [General-American], /ˈhɛd.lɑŋ/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: En-us-headlong.ogg Forms: headlongs [present, singular, third-person], headlonging [participle, present], headlonged [participle, past], headlonged [past]
Rhymes: -ɛdlɒŋ Etymology: From Middle English hedlong, alteration of hedling, heedling, hevedlynge (“headlong”), assimilated to long. More at headling. Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|hedlong}} Middle English hedlong Head templates: {{en-verb}} headlong (third-person singular simple present headlongs, present participle headlonging, simple past and past participle headlonged)
  1. (transitive) To precipitate. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-headlong-en-verb-E64bzd8e Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 4 5 16 20 17 4 15 18

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Figures out today show the economy plunging headlong into recession.",
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          "ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, “The \"Thunder Child.\"”, in The War of the Worlds, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, retrieved 2022-11-24, page 175:",
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          "text": "Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.",
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          "word": "сломя́ го́лову"
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          "code": "bg",
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      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "with the head first or down",
      "word": "kop eerste"
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      "word": "с главата напред"
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      "sense": "with the head first or down",
      "word": "pää edellä"
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      "word": "la tête la première"
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      "sense": "with the head first or down",
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      "word": "neowol"
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      "word": "сломя́ го́лову"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "word": "𐔱𐕒𐕚𐕍𐔰"
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      "roman": "pribǎrzano",
      "sense": "in haste, hastily, without deliberation",
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        "superlative"
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    "head‧long"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "Precipitous."
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        {
          "ref": "1993, Michael Hume Jackson, Galapagos, a Natural History, page 143:",
          "text": "On sighting their prey, they check their flight and hurtle in a headlong dive to the sea.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Plunging downwards head foremost."
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        {
          "ref": "1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 243:",
          "text": "Bumps, bruises, and scratches are often the result of their efforts to outstrip each other in the headlong race.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Rushing forward without restraint."
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          "restraint",
          "restraint"
        ]
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "“Time is up,” cried another boy, more headlong than head-monitor.",
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        "Reckless; impetuous."
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        "(figuratively) Reckless; impetuous."
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      "ipa": "/ˈhɛd.lɒŋ/",
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      "ipa": "/ˈhɛd.lɑŋ/",
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      "roman": "pribǎrzan",
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      "word": "прибързан"
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      "roman": "s glavata napred",
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      "sense": "plunging downwards head foremost",
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      "sense": "plunging downwards head foremost",
      "word": "neowol"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "plunging downwards head foremost",
      "word": "de cabeza"
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      "word": "буен"
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      "code": "no",
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      "sense": "rushing forward without restraint",
      "word": "hals over hode"
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      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "rushing forward without restraint",
      "word": "onbesonnen"
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          "ref": "1862, Thomas Adams, The works of Thomas Adams:",
          "text": "If a stranger be setting his pace and face toward some deep pit, or steep rock — such a precipice as the cliffs of Dover — how do we cry aloud to have him return ? yet in mean time forget the course of our own sinful ignorance, that headlongs us to confusion.",
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          "ref": "1905, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The outlook to nature:",
          "text": "Carriages went up and down in endless pageant. Trolley-cars rushed by, clanging and grinding as they headlonged into the side streets.",
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        "(transitive) To precipitate."
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      "ipa": "/ˈhɛd.lɑŋ/",
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}

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