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adjective

head-on adj.

Characterized by direct opposition; as, a head-on confrontation.

Synonyms: head-to-head.

Without evasion or compromise; as, his usual head-on fashion; to meet a problem head-on.

Synonyms: downright, flat-footed, forthright, foursquare, straightforward.

Meeting front to front; used mostly of collisions between vehicles; as, a head-on automobile collision.

Synonyms: frontal.

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Etymology of 'Head-on'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Head-on" Quotes from Famous Books

... was tellin' you, I rises up majestic and announces flat that she simply can't do a thing like that. Also she comes back at me just as prompt by sayin' that she can and will. It's the first time we've met head-on goin' different ways, and I had just sense enough to throw in my ...

— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford

... her full head-on at half power, taking advantage of the lulls to speed up and creep into it. She will strain much less this way than in quartering across a gale. (2) Nothing is to be gained by reversing into a following gale, and there is always risk of a turnover. ...

— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling

... sentry's rifle, and the flash of it spurted for an instant across the road, like a sheet of lightning. And, just as lightning might, it showed an instantaneous vision of a tired gray horse, foam-flecked and furiously ridden, pounding down the road head-on. The vision was blotted by the night again before any one could see who rode the horse, or what his weapons were—if any—or form a theory as to why ...

— Told in the East • Talbot Mundy

Words linked to "Head-on" : front