Headlong
Headlong adverb - With excessive or careless speed.
Usage example: plunged headlong into the crowd in pursuit of the purse snatcher
Hurriedly
Hurriedly adverb - With excessive or careless speed.
Usage example: hurriedly dashed off a note to let them know she'd been called away for an emergency
Headlong is a synonym for hurriedly in carelessly topic. You can use "Headlong" instead an adverb "Hurriedly", if it concerns topics such as brashly.
Nearby Word: hurried
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- fast and headlong
- fast and hurriedly
- quick and headlong
- quick and hurriedly
- helter-skelter and headlong
- helter-skelter and hurriedly
- pell-mell and headlong
- pell-mell and hurriedly
- swift and headlong
- swift and hurriedly
- quickly and headlong
- quickly and hurriedly
- recklessly and headlong
- recklessly and hurriedly
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Hurriedly and Headlong. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/headlong/hurriedly
Headlong & Hurriedly. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/headlong/hurriedly>.
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