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31Headlong Hall — First edition title page Headlong Hall is the first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815 (dated 1816).[1] As in his later novel Crotchet Castle, Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and… …
32headlong — Synonyms and related words: a corps perdu, abrupt, abruptly, accident prone, agile, bluff, bold, breakneck, breathless, careless, carelessly, daredevil, daring, dashing, desperate, desperately, devil may care, double quick, eagle winged,… …
33headlong — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. hasty, hurried; rash, precipitate; heedless, reckless. See rashness, haste. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. reckless, precipitate, impetuous; see rash . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. reckless,… …
34headlong — adv. [hedlyng]. Alys. 2261 …
35headlong — adj. foolhardy, rash adv. headfirst; rashly, recklessly …
36headlong — adverb & adjective 1》 with the head foremost. 2》 in a rush; with reckless haste. Origin ME headling, from head + the adverbial suffix ling …
37headlong — I. a. 1. Rash, inconsiderate, hasty, heady, reckless, thoughtless, impulsive, perilous, dangerous, ruinous, precipitate. 2. Rushing precipitately, wildly tumbling. 3. Steep, precipitous, sheer. II. ad. 1. Rashly, hastily, precipitately, head… …
38headlong — adv 1. headforemost, headfirst, head on, diving, in a dive, plunging, in a nose dive. 2. quickly, speedily, hurriedly; promptly, instantly, straightway, Sl. pronto, in a wink, in a jiffy, in a trice, in an instant, double quick, Inf. like greased …
39headlong — head·long …
40headlong — [ˈhedˌlɒŋ] adj, adv 1) moving with your head going first 2) very quickly and without thinking about what you are doing …
