Synonyms for head-on
head-on

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1. head-onadjective

   characterized by direct opposition

   "a head-on confrontation"

   Synonyms:
   frontal

   Antonyms:
   back(a), amicable

2. frontal, head-onadverb

   meeting front to front

   "a frontal attack"; "a head-on collision"

   Synonyms:
   frontal

   Antonyms:
   amicable, back(a)

3. head-onadverb

   in direct opposition; directly

   "we must meet the problem head-on"

   Antonyms:
   amicable, back(a)

4. head-onadverb

   with the front foremost

   "the cars collided head-on"

   Antonyms:
   amicable, back(a)

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1. List of paraphrases for "head-on":

   frontal, front, frontally, face-to-face

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1. Dumb & Dumber:

   Lloyd There's really nothing to worry about Mary. Statistically they say you're more likely to get killed on the way to the airport. You know, like on a head on crash or flying off a cliff or getting trapped under a gas truck That's the worst I have this cousin, well y'know, I had this cousin...

2. Raphael Warnock:

   It is my hope that businesses, athletes, and entertainers can protest this law not by leaving Georgia but by coming here and fighting voter suppression head on, and hand-in-hand with the community.

3. Justin Gallegos:

   I never thought about quitting or anything like that -- it's not who I am, and it's not in my nature, if something stands in my way, I'll find a way around it or find a way to deal with it head on. That's not denying that things were tough in the very beginning. I did fall down a lot and it did hurt.

4. Dixon Police Chief Steven Howell:

   With shots ringing out in the hallways of Dixon High School, he charged towards the suspect and confronted him, head-on. Because of his heroic actions, countless lives were saved.

5. Adam Schiff:

   CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidante said that GOP senators were warned: vote against your president ... and your head will be on a pike, i hope it's not true. But I was struck by the irony of the idea, when we're talking about a president who would make himself a monarch, that whoever that was would use the terminology of a penalty that was imposed by a monarch, a head on a pike.