🐎 Headlong: Leaping Before Looking
Do you know what HEADLONG means? A) stubborn; B) recklessly hasty; C) highly intelligent; D) long-winded. Check your answer inside. 👉
Picture someone sprinting so recklessly toward something that their head is nine inches ahead of the rest of their body.
That's the idea of headlong.
If you do something headlong, you plunge into it rashly or without stopping to think. The word originally meant head first, and that literal image eventually gave rise to the figurative meaning we use much more often today.
📚️ Definition of Headlong
Headlong (adverb): moving or acting recklessly: ran headlong into the burning house. with the head first or down: to jump headlong into the water.
🗣️ Pronunciation of Headlong
IPA: ˈhɛd.lɑŋ (See IPA key)
Phonetic: HED-lawng
📰 Examples of Headlong
Here are some examples of the word Headlong:
Eager to close the deal, Daoud rushed headlong into the negotiations for the sale of his house without consulting his real estate friends.
On New Year’s Day, I promised myself I’d stop picking up new hobbies, but by January 3, I was already researching digital cameras.
In 2010, UX designer Harry Brignull coined the term dark patterns to name deceptive interfaces—cancel buttons that are hard to see, “only 2 left” alerts, extra fees that show up at the end of checkout—engineered to trigger not deliberation but a shopper’s headlong decision to buy. Such designs, a 2022 Federal Trade Commission report warned, essentially trick users into choices they would not otherwise make.
🗣️ Common Collocations of Headlong
A collocation is a group of words often found together in usage, for example figment of one’s imagination, extenuating circumstances, or inclement weather.
rush headlong
run headlong
headlong into danger
Quiz answer: B.
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