Synonyms for headlong
ˈhɛdˌlɔŋ, -ˌlɒŋhead·long

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1. hasty, headlongadjective

   excessively quick

   "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"

   Synonyms:
   overhasty, precipitous, headfirst, precipitate, precipitant, hasty

   Antonyms:
   backward, unhurried

2. headfirst, headlongadverb

   with the head foremost

   "a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool"

   Synonyms:
   headfirst, hasty

   Antonyms:
   backward, unhurried

3. headlong, headfirstadverb

   with the head foremost

   "the runner slid headlong into third base"

   Synonyms:
   precipitately, headfirst, rashly

   Antonyms:
   unhurried, backward

4. headlong, precipitatelyadverb

   at breakneck speed

   "burst headlong through the gate"

   Synonyms:
   precipitately, headfirst, rashly

   Antonyms:
   unhurried, backward

5. headlong, rashlyadverb

   in a hasty and foolhardy manner

   "he fell headlong in love with his cousin"

   Synonyms:
   precipitately, headfirst, rashly

   Antonyms:
   unhurried, backward

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1. headlongadjective

   Synonyms:
   rashly, hastily, precipitately, head-foremost, thoughtlessly, without deliberation

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1. headlongadverb

   Synonyms:
   headforemost, precipitately, rashly, pell-mell, helter-skelter, confusedly

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1. List of paraphrases for "headlong":

   hasty

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1. Stephen Innes:

   Pelosi's Taiwan visit is tainting sentiment today. And amid escalating tensions in Taiwan Strait and deepening worries about a global economic slowdown, investors are diving headlong into Stephen Innes bonds, no party wants a real war, but the risk of mishap or even aggressive war game escalation is real, which could always lead to a tactical mistake.

2. Alien Life -RSB- Raymond:

   We're trying to find examples of the most extreme environments we can on Earth, we're trying to get into places where biology runs headlong into the inorganic part of the Earth, where any nutrient you want to pick up you've got to get from a rock or the atmosphere.

3. Nigel Farage:

   The Macron agenda -- more money, more taxation, more military power, foreign policy without national veto -- everything Macron is talking about runs into a headlong collision with the way the peoples of Europe are feeling.

4. Jean Cocteau:

   There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

5. Saadi Shirazi:

   Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.