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headlongadjective acting or done with excessive or careless speedterrified forest creatures in a headlong retreat from the rapidly spreading fire cursory, drive-by, flying, gadarene, hasty, helter-skelter, hurried, overhasty, pell-mell, precipitate, precipitous, rash, rushed breakneck, breathtakingheadstrong, heady, hotheaded, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, reckless, unadvisedquick, rapid, speedy, swifthorseback, impromptu, makeshift, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff, rush, slapdash, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-momentabrupt, sudden deliberate, unhurried, unrushed calculated, calculating, measuredcircumspect, foresighted, forethoughtfuldrawn-out, extended, long-term, prolongedfaltering, hesitant, hesitating, tentativedallying, dawdling, laggard, leisurely, poky(or pokey), shilly-shallying, slow headlongadverbwith excessive or careless speedplunged headlong into the crowd in pursuit of the purse snatcher cursorily, hastily, hotfoot, hurriedly, pell-mell, precipitately, precipitously, rashly headfirst, headily, hotheadedly, impatiently, impetuously, impulsively, recklessly, thoughtlesslyautomatically, glancingly, haphazardlyimpromptu, spontaneouslyabruptly, suddenlyoffhand, offhandedly on the spur of the moment deliberately, studiedly calculatingly, circumspectly, designedlyfalteringly, haltingly, hesitantly, hesitatingly, tentativelyleisurely, slowly without delayhad barely finished the last project when we went headlong into the next one bang, directly, forthwith, immediately, incontinently, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, now, PDQ, plumb, presently, promptly, pronto, right, right away, right now, right off, straight off, straightaway, straightway away, freelyanon, momentarily, shortly, soonapace, briskly, fast, fleetly, full-tilt, posthaste, quick, quickly, rapidly, readily, snappily, speedily, swift, swiftlyabruptly, presto, suddenly, unexpectedlyhastily, impetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklesslyexactly, opportunely, punctually, seasonably at once, in no time, off the bat, on a dime, on the double, on the spot slowlylate, tardily adj.precipitate, headlong, abrupt, impetuous, sudden mean showing undue haste or unexpectedness.precipitate stresses lack of due deliberation and implies prematureness of action.the army's precipitate withdrawal headlong stresses rashness and lack of forethought.a headlong flight from arrest abrupt stresses curtness and a lack of warning or ceremony.an abrupt refusal impetuous stresses extreme impatience or impulsiveness.an impetuous lover proposing marriage sudden stresses unexpectedness and sharpness or violence of action.flew into a sudden rage in the 14th century |