Synonyms for Headlong:

• adj.

  •brash (adjective)
  • untactful,
  • maladroit,
  • tactless,
  • bold,
  • impertinent,
  • cocksure,
  • uppity,
  • Brazenfaced,
  • indiscreet,
  • ill-advised,
  • undiplomatic,
  • Presuming,
  • audacious,
  • pushing,
  • impolitic,
  • impudent,
  • effervescent,
  • presumptuous,
  • vivacious,
  • forward.
  •breakneck (adjective)
  • rapid,
  • flat out,
  • excessive,
  • whirlwind.
  •desperate (adjective)
  • venturesome,
  • wild,
  • determined,
  • dangerous,
  • shocking,
  • frenzied,
  • atrocious,
  • devil-may-care,
  • hazardous,
  • violent,
  • furious.
  •hasty (adjective)
  • quickened,
  • cursory,
  • slambang,
  • snappy,
  • PDQ,
  • perfunctory,
  • rushed,
  • brisk,
  • quickie,
  • fiery,
  • passing,
  • pronto,
  • expeditious,
  • fleeting,
  • urgent,
  • brief,
  • chop-chop,
  • eager,
  • fleet,
  • harefooted,
  • agile,
  • superficial,
  • on the double.
  •headlong (adjective)
  • rushing,
  • inconsiderate,
  • daring,
  • precipitate,
  • precipitant,
  • rough,
  • daredevil,
  • thoughtless,
  • foolhardy,
  • tempestuous.
  •hurried (adjective)
  • precipitous.
  •ill-considered (adjective)
  • illconsidered,
  • ill considered.
  •impatient (adjective)
  • keen,
  • hot-tempered,
  • athirst,
  • avid,
  • choleric,
  • intolerant,
  • curt,
  • feverish,
  • breathless,
  • anxious,
  • ardent,
  • testy,
  • restless,
  • quick-tempered,
  • irritable,
  • straining,
  • itchy,
  • indignant,
  • irascible,
  • antsy,
  • edgy,
  • fretful,
  • vehement,
  • appetent,
  • demanding,
  • chafing,
  • brusque,
  • agog.
  •impetuous (adjective)
  • unplanned,
  • restive,
  • fierce,
  • unbridled,
  • spontaneous,
  • unexpected,
  • fervid,
  • unthinking,
  • impassioned,
  • unrestrained.
  •impulsive (adjective)
  • hot and cold,
  • gone off deep end,
  • unprompted,
  • ad lib,
  • hot-and-cold,
  • Unmeditated,
  • ADLIB.
  •passionate (adjective)
  • in spiring,
  • in-spiring,
  • in tense,
  • high powered,
  • in-tenser,
  • more high pressure,
  • more highpressure,
  • in-tensest,
  • more high-pressure,
  • most high-pressure,
  • most highpressure,
  • highpressure,
  • most high pressure,
  • in-tense,
  • in tenser.
  •precipitous/precipitate (adjective)
  • un controlled,
  • most precipitate,
  • off hip,
  • un anticipated,
  • most unanticipated,
  • gone off half cocked,
  • gone half-cocked,
  • off top head,
  • harum scarum,
  • gone off halfcocked,
  • gone half cocked,
  • more unanticipated,
  • un foreseen,
  • un-anticipated,
  • gone halfcocked,
  • un-foreseen,
  • un-controlled,
  • off the top head,
  • jump gun.
  •quick (adjective)
  • more expeditive,
  • ex-press,
  • lead out,
  • ex press,
  • most expeditive.
  •rash (adjective)
  • Insuppressible,
  • overhasty,
  • jumping to conclusions,
  • over hasty.
  •reckless (adjective)
  • overventuresome,
  • uncareful,
  • playing with fire.
  •sheer (adjective)
  • more sideling,
  • most sideling.
  •short-sighted (adjective)
  • most near-sighted,
  • more near sighted,
  • short sighted,
  • near sighted,
  • most near sighted,
  • more near-sighted.
  •shortsighted (adjective)
  • more imperceptive,
  • most imperceptive,
  • most astigmatic,
  • more unsagacious,
  • un sagacious,
  • most unsagacious,
  • more astigmatic,
  • un-sagacious.
  •speedy (adjective)
  • more quick-fire,
  • most quick-fire,
  • most supersonic,
  • most quickfire,
  • most rapidfire,
  • most ultrasonic,
  • more alacritous,
  • super sonic,
  • most alacritous,
  • rapid fire,
  • most rapid fire,
  • rapidfire,
  • most rapid-fire,
  • more rapidfire,
  • most quick fire,
  • more rapid-fire,
  • quickfire,
  • more rapid fire,
  • ultra sonic,
  • more quickfire,
  • more supersonic,
  • super-sonic,
  • quick fire,
  • more quick fire,
  • more ultrasonic.
  •steep (adjective)
  • most lifted,
  • more lifted,
  • more straightup,
  • more declivitous,
  • more straight up,
  • most declivitous,
  • most straight up,
  • most straightup,
  • more straight-up,
  • more prerupt,
  • most prerupt,
  • most straight-up,
  • straightup.
  •sudden (adjective)
  • flasher,
  • Subito.
  •swift (adjective)
  • most fleetfooted,
  • more screaming,
  • most barrelling,
  • most fleet-footed,
  • more speedball,
  • more barrelling,
  • fleet footed,
  • most fleet footed,
  • more fleet footed,
  • more cracking,
  • shortlived,
  • more fleetfooted,
  • most screaming,
  • most speedball,
  • fleetfooted,
  • short lived,
  • shaking leg,
  • most cracking,
  • more fleet-footed.
  •thoughtless (adjective)
  • unguarded.
  •unconsidered (adjective)
  • un considered,
  • un-considered.
  •unguarded (adjective)
  • unwatchful,
  • unreflective,
  • unvigilant,
  • unalert,
  • Uncircumspect.
  •unpremeditated (adjective)
  • un-premeditated,
  • un intentional,
  • un-designed,
  • un designed,
  • un-intentional,
  • un premeditated.
  •whirlwind (adjective)
  • most cyclonic,
  • more cyclonic,
  • most tornado,
  • most hurricane,
  • more tornado,
  • more hurricane.

• a. & adv.

  •posthaste (adjective, adverb)
  • most directly.

• adv

  •pell-mell (adverb)
  • full tilt,
  • thoughtlessly,
  • Pellmell,
  • heedlessly,
  • precipitiously.
  •quickly (adverb)
  • like a shot,
  • quickly,
  • frenetic,
  • in a flash/like a flash/quick as a flash.
  •rashly (adverb)
  • ill-advisedly,
  • unthinkingly,
  • irresponsibly,
  • indomitably,
  • unwarily,
  • inadvisedly,
  • feverishly,
  • unpreparedly,
  • precipitously,
  • headstrongly.

• adv.

  •helter-skelter (adverb)
  • unmindfully,
  • jumbled,
  • cluttered,
  • disorderly,
  • hit-or-miss,
  • random,
  • hotfoot,
  • incautiously,
  • haphazard,
  • anyhow,
  • at random,
  • topsyturvy,
  • Anywise,
  • wildly,
  • recklessly,
  • Incontinently,
  • topsy-turvy,
  • muddled,
  • randomly,
  • any which way,
  • impetuously,
  • irregular,
  • in confusion,
  • around,
  • hurriedly,
  • higgledy-piggledy,
  • hastily,
  • about.
  •pell-mell (adverb)
  • pell mell,
  • in discreetly,
  • in-discreetly.
  •posthaste (adverb)
  • more directly,
  • double quick,
  • most double quick,
  • more double-quick,
  • most speedily,
  • most straightaway,
  • more doublequick,
  • most double-quick,
  • most flatout,
  • doublequick,
  • more flatout,
  • more straightaway,
  • most doublequick,
  • more speedily,
  • post haste,
  • quicklier,
  • most flat out,
  • most flat-out,
  • more hastily,
  • more flat out,
  • swiftliest,
  • more flat-out,
  • swiftlier,
  • quickliest,
  • more double quick,
  • most hastily,
  • most rapidly,
  • promptlier,
  • promptliest,
  • flatout,
  • fleetliest,
  • licketysplit,
  • fleetlier.
  •rashly (adverb)
  • Headily,
  • Precipitantly.

• n.

  •
  • up,
  • under,
  • ascending,
  • bouncy,
  • upward,
  • skyward,
  • downward.
  •
  • straight.
  •headfirst (noun)
  • headfirst.
  •headlong (noun)
  • precipitately.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fast track,
  • suddenly,
  • fast,
  • instant,
  • outspread,
  • summary,
  • outstretched,
  • short,
  • lightning,
  • already,
  • down,
  • fetal position,
  • Posthaste,
  • fast-paced,
  • temerarious,
  • straight away,
  • unconsidered,
  • summarily,
  • swift,
  • wham-bam,
  • prompt,
  • straightaway,
  • head first,
  • boldly,
  • poof,
  • on-the-spot,
  • now,
  • abrupt.
  •
  • immediate,
  • slouch,
  • flat,
  • slap,
  • violently,
  • incautious,
  • hotheaded,
  • madcap,
  • harum-scarum,
  • flash,
  • rude,
  • presto,
  • immediately,
  • cold.
  •
  • right,
  • improvident,
  • reckless.
  •
  • slapdash.
  •
  • sprawl,
  • stoop.
  •
  • squat.

Paraphrases for Headlong:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    ill-considered, hurried, over-hasty, precipitate, rapid.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    hasty, precipitous, overhasty.

Antonyms for Headlong:

• adj.

  • brash
    fearful, discreet, afraid, reserved.
  • breakneck
    extremely slow.
  • desperate
    secure, content, satisfied, confident, unworried.
  • hasty
    slow, lazy, lingering, delayed, Loitering.
  • headlong
    thoughtfully, cautious, careful, wary.
  • hurried
    unhurried, leisurely, easily, unrushed.
  • impatient
    tolerant, enduring, patient, forbearing, easy-going, laid-back, waiting, controlled, willing.
  • impetuous
    thoughtful, sensible, calm, circumspect, wise, reflective, considerate.
  • Other antonyms:
    measured, foresighted, hesitant, long-term, forethoughtful, dawdling, calculated, laggard, drawn-out, deliberate, backward, faltering, poky, prolonged, calculating, shilly-shallying, tentative, hesitating, extended.

• adv.

  • bang
    slowly.
  • helter-skelter
    straight, methodical, organized, carefully, systematic.