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head first

UK/hɛd.fɜːst/US/hɛd.fɝst/

head first adverb: with the head first or foremost.

Adverb

head first (comparative more head first, superlative most head first)

  1. With the head first or foremost.
    • I shot head first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 48
    • He must be able to spring from the floor to about twice his own height, gradually turning over as he rises, so as to come down again head first.1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “L’Amie Inconnue”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 25
    Synonyms:
    headlong
    Antonyms:
    feet first, footling, footling breech

head first meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

head first in Tamil

தலையீடு

head first in Malayalam

headlong, on one' head
തലകുത്തിയുള്ള, തലകിഴുക്കാംപാടെയുള്ള, തല കീഴായുള്ള, അവാഗഗ്ര, അധോമുഖമായ
without thinking, without forethought, precipitously
ആലോചനയില്ലാത്ത, വീണ്ടുവിചാരമില്ലാത്ത, ലക്കില്ലാത്ത, മുൻപിൻ നോക്കാതുള്ള, തിടുക്കത്തിലുള്ള, എടുത്തുചാടിയുള്ള
headlong, on one' head
തലകീഴായി, അവാക്, തലയുംകുത്തി, തലകുത്തനെ, കിഴുക്കനെ, കിഴുക്കാംപാട്
without thinking, without forethought, precipitously
അവിവേകമായി, ആലോചനയില്ലാതെ, നല്ലതുപോലെ ആലാചിക്കാതെ, അവിമർശം, ആലോചനകൂടാതെ, കണ്ണും മൂക്കുമില്ലാതെ

Synonyms of head first

Antonyms

Forms of head first

comparativemore head first
superlativemost head first
alternative formhead-first

Questions about head first

What does head first mean?
Head first means with the head first or foremost.
What is head first in Tamil?
Head first in Tamil is தலையீடு. See Head first meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is head first?
Head first is an adverb.
How do you pronounce head first?
Head first is pronounced /hɛd.fɜːst/ (UK).

Words near head first in the dictionary

  1. head dress
  2. head dresses
  3. head earing
  4. head fake
  5. head fakes
  6. head first
  7. head for the hills
  8. head game
  9. head gamed
  10. head games
  11. head gaming

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: head first (page history and authors); head first (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); head first (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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