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Another word for headlong

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headlong

modif.

reckless, precipitate, impetuous; see rash.

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Another word for headlong

adjective

Characterized by unthinking boldness and haste:

brash, foolhardy, harum-scarum, hasty, hotheaded, ill-considered, impetuous, improvident, impulsive, incautious, madcap, precipitant, precipitate, rash¹, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, unconsidered. See careful

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Nasr escaped only by a headlong flight to Nishapur.
She finally reached the bottom of the embankment and fell headlong into a bunch of blackberry bushes.
He did not plunge headlong into the wars of Louis XI.
Another borzoi, a dog, catching sight of his master from the garden path, arched his back and, rushing headlong toward the porch with lifted tail, began rubbing himself against his legs.
Mitenka flew headlong down the six steps and ran away into the shrubbery.

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