headfirst
See also: head-first and head first
English
editEtymology
editAdverb
editheadfirst (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
edit- (with the head in front): headforemost, headlong
Translations
editheadlong — see headlong
Adjective
editheadfirst (not comparable)
- With the head in front; headlong.