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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

headfirst en · ADJ

Etymology

From head + first.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) With the head in front; headlong.

headfirst en · ADV

Etymology

From head + first.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) With the head in front; headlong.
  2. (not-comparable) Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; hastily.
    • Sheffield was not going to stop being Sheffield just because he had dived headfirst into the lusts of the flesh. 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 245:
    • Over the past two years, Silicon Valley’s leaders and investors — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in weapons and war — have plunged headfirst into the military industrial complex. 2025 August 4, Sheera Frenkel, “The Militarization of Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025:

Antonyms

feet first

Synonyms

headforemost (with the head in front) · headlong (with the head in front)