headlong

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf With the head first or down.
2. zarf With an unrestrained forward motion.

   “Figures out today show the economy plunging headlong into recession.”

3. zarf Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; in haste, hastily.
4. sıfat Precipitous.

   “Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.”

5. sıfat Plunging downwards head foremost.

   “On sighting their prey, they check their flight and hurtle in a headlong dive to the sea.”

6. sıfat Rushing forward without restraint.

   “Bumps, bruises, and scratches are often the result of their efforts to outstrip each other in the headlong race.”

7. sıfat Reckless; impetuous.

   ““Time is up,” cried another boy, more headlong than head-monitor.”

8. fiil To precipitate.

   “If a stranger be setting his pace and face toward some deep pit, or steep rock — such a precipice as the cliffs of Dover — how do we cry aloud to have him return ? yet in mean time forget the course of our own sinful ignorance, that headlongs us to confusion.”