headfirst

See also: head-first and head first

English

Etymology

From head +‎ first.

Adverb

headfirst (not comparable)

With the head in front; headlong.
Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; hastily.
- 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 245:
  Sheffield was not going to stop being Sheffield just because he had dived headfirst into the lusts of the flesh.

Synonyms

(with the head in front): headforemost, headlong

Translations

headlong — see headlong

Adjective

headfirst (not comparable)

With the head in front; headlong.

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