Headlong
Headlong adverb - With excessive or careless speed.
Usage example: plunged headlong into the crowd in pursuit of the purse snatcher
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- fast and headlong
- fast and hastily
- quick and headlong
- quick and hastily
- helter-skelter and headlong
- helter-skelter and hastily
- pell-mell and headlong
- pell-mell and hastily
- quickly and headlong
- quickly and hastily
- recklessly and headlong
- recklessly and hastily
- speedily and headlong
- speedily and hastily
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Hastily and Headlong. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/headlong/hastily
Headlong & Hastily. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/headlong/hastily>.
Hastily or Headlong. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/headlong/hastily.
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