Synonyms for head over heels
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : hed |
| Phonetic Transcription : hɛd |
Définition of head over heels
Origin :- 1771, "a curious perversion" [Weekley] of Middle English heels over head. Head (n.) and heels have been paired in alliterative phrases since at least c.1400, and the whole image also was in classical Latin (per caput pedesque ire).
- adv very much
- He put his shoulder to it like a little fool and went in head over heels.
- Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
- Head over heels he went as the pistol exploded for the second time.
- Extract from : « The Daffodil Mystery » by Edgar Wallace
- His mother sick and head over heels in debt to the Waldstrickers!
- Extract from : « The Secret of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White
- I grappled his arm, and the recoil of it flung me head over heels.
- Extract from : « IT and Other Stories » by Gouverneur Morris
- It was right in my path and I tumbled into it, literally, head over heels.
- Extract from : « High Adventure » by James Norman Hall
- It turned them head over heels, and swept them up the shingly shore.
- Extract from : « The Lonely Island » by R.M. Ballantyne
- And several times he managed to throw Peter head over heels.
- Extract from : « The Tale of Peter Mink » by Arthur Scott Bailey
- At the end of the afternoon Skippy was head over heels in love.
- Extract from : « Skippy Bedelle » by Owen Johnson
- The doctor who was just here keeps humming 'Head over heels.'
- Extract from : « A Family of Noblemen » by Mikhal Saltykov
- If you shake your fist at me again, I'll pitch you head over heels into that snowdrift.
- Extract from : « The Battle Ground » by Ellen Glasgow
Words or expressions associated with your search
- 18-wheeler
- accidental discovery
- Achilles' heel
- achilles-heel
- achilles'-heel
- Achilles heel
- addle-headed
- ahead
- ahead its time
- ahead of its time
- ahead of the game
- ahead of time
- ahead the game
- ahead time
- aheads
- airhead
- airheaded
- airheadedness
- all bases covered
- all-over
- all over
- all over but the shouting
- all over creation
- all over place
- all over the map
- all over the place
- all over town
- all-overs
- all overs
- all-wheel drive
- at loggerheads
- at the head
- at the heels of
- atomic warhead
- bad wheel
- balance-wheel
- balance wheel
- baldheaded
- bang heads
- banged heads
- be ahead
- be ahead of
- be all over place
- be all over the map
- be all over the place
- be at head of
- be at loggerheads
- be at the head of
- be crazy over
- be discovered
- be head of
- be headed
- be heading
- be headings
- be heads
- be impoverished
- be in clover
- be one step ahead of
- be over
- be over place
- be over the place
- be overbearing
- be overcast
- be overcome
- be overcritical
- be overjoyed
- be overtaken
- be step ahead of
- be the head of
- beefhead
- behead
- bend over backwards
- big head
- big six wheel
- big wheel
- big-wheel
- bigheaded
- blockhead
- boil over
- boiling over
- bonehead
- bonehead play
- brood over
- bubbleheaded
- bullhead
- bullheaded
- bullheadedly
- bullheadedness
- bump heads
- came over
- came to a head
- caretaker government
- carried over
- carries over
- carry over
- carry-over
- carrying over
- carryover
- cash on barrelhead
- cash on the barrelhead
- Catherine wheel
- catherine wheels
- chance discovery
- changeover
- chew over
- clear-headed
- climb all over
- clover
- come over
- come to heel
- company headquarters
- continue ahead
- controversial
- controversial issue
- controversial situation
- controversy
- controvert
- controvertible
- corporate headquarters
- count heads
- cover
- cover all bases
- cover for
- cover girl
- cover ground
- cover-up
- cover up
- coverage
- covered
- covered-dish supper
- covered up
- covered wagon
- covering
- covering up
- covert
- covertly
- crowned head
- daisy-wheel printer
- dangle over
- dash ahead
- dashed ahead
- deadhead
- deadheads
- death-head
- death head
- death's-head
- deaths head
- deaths-head
- die over
- disapprover
- discover
- discoverable
- discovered
- discoverer
- discovering
- discovery
- done over
- down-at-heel
- droop over
- drop over
- dunderhead
- dust cover
- dusted over
- duvet cover
- earthmover
- eggheaded
- eighteen-wheeler
- eighteen wheeler
- eighteenwheeler
- emery wheel
- empty headed
- empty-headed
- empty-headedness
- emptyheaded
- extroversive
- extrovert
- extroverted
- extrovertive
- fall all over
- fall headlong
- fall over backwards
- falling all over oneself
- falling over
- falls over
- far ahead
- fathead
- fatheaded
- fawn over
- fawned over
- fawns over
- feel lightheaded
- fell headlong
- fell over
- female sovereign
- feme covert
- field headquarters
- fifth wheel
- fight over
- fighting over
- fights over
- figurehead
- fill to overflowing
- filled overflowing
- filling overflowing
- fills overflowing
- fills to overflowing
- flap over
- flip over
- floor covering
- fool-headed
- foolheaded
- forehead
- forge ahead
- fork over
- fountainhead
- four-wheel drive
- four-wheeler
- fuss over
- fusses over
- gaga over
- gambling wheel
- gat in to head
- gat into head
- gat through head
- gat through one head
- gat through one's head
- gat through ones head
- gave goahead
- gave going over
- gave once-over
- gave onceover
- gave oneself over
- gave stamp approval give go-ahead
- gave stamp approval give go ahead
- gave stamp approval give goahead
- gave stamp approval give the go-ahead
- gave stamp approval give the go ahead
- gave stamp of approval give go-ahead
- gave stamp of approval give go ahead
- gave stamp of approval give goahead
- gave stamp of approval give the go-ahead
- gave stamp of approval give the go ahead
- gave stamp of approval give the goahead
- gave the go ahead
- gave the once-over
- gearwheel
- general headquarters
- get ahead
- get heads together
- get in to one's head
- get into head
- get into one head
- get into one's head
- get over
- get through head
- get through one head
- get through one's head
- get through ones head
- gets in to ones head
- gets into one head
- gets through head
- gets through one head
- gets through one's head
- gets through ones head
- getting ahead
- getting aheads
- getting in to ones head
- getting into head
- getting into ones head
- getting over something
- getting through head
- getting through one head
- getting through one's head
- getting through ones head
- give a going over
- give oneself over to
- give over
- give the go-ahead
- give the once-over
- give the once over
- given over to
- glance over
- gloat over
- go-ahead
- go ahead
- go headfirst
- go headlong
- go over
- go over big
- go over the hill
- go over to
- godhead
- going-over
- govern
- governable
- governance
- governed
- governing
- governing body
- government
- government civic
- government debt
- government holiday
- government land
- governmental
- governmentally
- governor
- grease the wheels
- grease wheels
- ground cover
- had a head start
- had head start
- had over
- haddest a head start
- haddest head start
- hadst a head start
- hadst head start
- hadst over
- half-seas over
- hand over
- hand over fist
- hand-turned wheel
- handed over
- handing over
- hands over
- hang over
- hanged over
- hanging over
- hangover
- hard headed
- hard-headed
- hard-nosed/hardheaded
- hardcover
- hardhead
- hardheaded
- hardheadedness
- has a head start
- has head start
- hash over
- hast a head start
- hast head start
- hast over
- hath a head start
- have a head start
- have it all over
- have over
- head
- head honcho
- head in the clouds
- head man
- head of household
- head of the house
- head of the line
- head out
- head over heels
- head person
- head rush
- head shot
- head shrinker
- head trip
- head up
- headache
- headdress
- header
- headgear
- heading
- headland
- headlight
- headline
- headliner
- headlong
- headpiece
- headquarters
- headrail
- heads or tails
- heads together
- heads up
- headset
- headshaker
- headstall
- headstone
- headstrong
- headstrongly
- headstrongness
- headway
- heady
- heel
- heel-and-toe racing
- heel-and-toeing
- heel of Achilles
- heel up
- heels over head
- hold over
- hold sway over
- Hoover
- hot-headed
- hothead
- hotheaded
- hotheadedness
- hover
- hovered
- hovering
- ice-covered
- ice over
- iced over
- impoverish
- impoverished
- impoverishment
- in clover
- in controvertible
- incontrovertible
- introvert
- introverted
- introvertive
- irrecoverable
- jet over
- journey over
- journeys over
- jughead
- jump head
- jump over
- jumped all over
- jumped over
- jumping all over
- jumping over
- jumps all over
- jumps over
- keel over
- keeling over
- keep head above water
- keep one's shoulder the wheel
- keep one's shoulder to the wheel
- keep one's shoulder to wheel
- keep one's shoulder wheel
- keep one shoulder the wheel
- keep one shoulder to the wheel
- keep one shoulder to wheel
- keep one shoulder wheel
- keep ones shoulder the wheel
- keep ones shoulder to the wheel
- keep ones shoulder to wheel
- keep ones shoulder wheel
- keep shoulder the wheel
- keep shoulder to the wheel
- keep shoulder to wheel
- keep shoulder wheel
- keep watch over
- keeping head above water
- keeping one's shoulder the wheel
- keeping one's shoulder to the wheel
- keeping one's shoulder to wheel
- keeping one's shoulder wheel
- keeping one shoulder the wheel
- keeping one shoulder to the wheel
- keeping one shoulder to wheel
- keeping one shoulder wheel
- keeping ones shoulder the wheel
- keeping ones shoulder to the wheel
- keeping ones shoulder to wheel
- keeping ones shoulder wheel
- keeping shoulder the wheel
- keeping shoulder to the wheel
- keeping shoulder to wheel
- keeping shoulder wheel
- keeps head above water
- keeps one's shoulder the wheel
- keeps one's shoulder to the wheel
- keeps one's shoulder to wheel
- keeps one shoulder the wheel
- keeps one shoulder to the wheel
- keeps one shoulder to wheel
- keeps one shoulder wheel
- keeps ones shoulder the wheel
- keeps ones shoulder to the wheel
- keeps ones shoulder to wheel
- keeps ones shoulder wheel
- keeps shoulder the wheel
- keeps shoulder to the wheel
- keeps shoulder to wheel
- keeps shoulder wheel
- keeps watch over
- kept one's shoulder the wheel
- kept one's shoulder to the wheel
- kept one's shoulder to wheel
- kept one's shoulder wheel
- kept one shoulder the wheel
- kept one shoulder to the wheel
- kept one shoulder to wheel
- kept one shoulder wheel
- kept ones shoulder to the wheel
- kept ones shoulder to wheel
- kept ones shoulder wheel
- kept shoulder the wheel
- kept shoulder to the wheel
- kept shoulder to wheel
- kept shoulder wheel
- kick over
- kick over the traces
- kick over traces
- kick up heels
- kick up one's heels
- kick wheel
- kicked heels
- kicked over the traces
- kicked over traces
- kicking over the traces
- kicks heels
- kicks over traces
- kicks up heels
- knit pullover
- knock over
- knock over with feather
- knocked over
- knocks over
- knothead
- knucklehead
- laid over
- lap over
- lapping over
- laugh one head off
- laugh one's head off
- laughed one head off
- laughed ones head off
- lay down and roll over
- lay over
- laying over
- layover
- lean over
- lean over backwards
- leaned over
- leaning over
- leaning over backwards
- leans over
- leant over
- leant over backwards
- leap over
- leaped over
- leaping over
- left over
- leftover
- leftovers
- let run over
- letted run over
- letterhead
- level-headed
- level headed
- level-headedness
- level headedness
- level of economic security guaranteed by government
- levelheaded
- levelheadedness
- liberal government
- lightheaded
- lightheadedness
- look ahead to
- look over
- lover
- lovers
- lunkhead
- made off top head
- made off top of head
- made off top of one head
- made off top of one's head
- made off top of ones head
- made off top one head
- made off top one's head
- made off top ones head
- made over
- made top head
- made top of head
- made top of one head
- made top of one's head
- made top of ones head
- made top one head
- made top one's head
- made top ones head
- made up off top head
- made up off top of head
- made up off top of one head
- made up off top of one's head
- made up off top of ones head
- made up off top one head
- made up off top one's head
- made up off top ones head
- made up top head
- made up top of head
- made up top of one head
- made up top of one's head
- made up top of ones head
- made up top one head
- made up top one's head
- made up top ones head
- make a fuss over
- make a to-do over
- make heads or tails of
- make headway
- make off top of head
- make off top of one's head
- make off top of ones head
- make off top one head
- make off top one's head
- make off top ones head
- make over
- make overture
- make top head
- make top of head
- make top of one head
- make top of one's head
- make top of ones head
- make top one head
- make top one's head
- make top ones head
- make up off the top of one's head
- make up off top head
- make up off top of head
- make up off top of one head
- make up off top of one's head
- make up off top of ones head
- make up off top one head
- make up off top one's head
- make up off top ones head
- make up top head
- make up top of head
- make up top of one head
- make up top of one's head
- make up top of ones head
- make up top one head
- make up top one's head
- make up top ones head
- makeover
- makes off top head
- makes off top of head
- makes off top of one head
- makes off top of one's head
- makes off top of ones head
- makes off top one head
- makes off top one's head
- makes off top ones head
- makes top head
- makes top of head
- makes top of one head
- makes top of one's head
- makes top of ones head
- makes top one head
- makes top one's head
- makes top ones head
- makes up off top head
- makes up off top of head
- makes up off top of one head
- makes up off top of one's head
- makes up off top of ones head
- makes up off top one head
- makes up off top ones head
- makes up top head
- makes up top of head
- makes up top of one head
- makes up top of one's head
- makes up top of ones head
- makes up top one head
- makes up top one's head
- makes up top ones head
- making headway
- making off top head
- making off top of head
- making off top of one head
- making off top of ones head
- making off top one head
- making off top one's head
- making off top ones head
- making overture
- making top of head
- making top of one head
- making top of one's head
- making top of ones head
- making top one head
- making top one's head
- making top ones head
- making up off top head
- making up off top of head
- making up off top of one head
- making up off top of one's head
- making up off top of ones head
- making up off top one head
- making up off top one's head
- making up off top ones head
- making up top head
- making up top of head
- making up top of one head
- making up top of one's head
- making up top of ones head
- making up top one head
- making up top one's head
- making up top ones head
- meathead
- meet head-on
- misgovern
- monarchical government
- moon over
- move ahead
- mover
- mover and shaker
- mull over
- muse over
- muttonhead
- nature lover
- nature-lover
- nature-lovers
- nature lovers
- naturelovers
- nominal head
- non-government
- non government
- non governments
- non-governments
- nongovernment
- nongovernments
- not enough to cover
- not over
- nuclear warhead
- off head
- off one head
- off one's head
- off ones head
- off the top of head
- off the top of one head
- off the top of one's head
- off the top of ones head
- off the top one head
- off the top ones head
- off top of head
- off top of one head
- off top of one's head
- off top of ones head
- off top one head
- off top one's head
- off top ones head
- oil the wheels
- oil wheels
- oiled the wheels
- oiled wheels
- oiling the wheels
- oiling wheels
- oils the wheels
- oils wheels
- on ahead
- on head
- on one's head
- on the road to recovery
- on wheels
- once over
- once over lightly
- onced over lightly
- onceover
- onces over lightly
- oncing over lightly
- one at the wheel
- one wheel
- over
- over-and-above
- over and above
- over and done
- over and over
- over the counter
- over the rainbow
- overabundance
- overact
- overacted
- overage
- overall
- overalls
- overawe
- overbear
- overbearance
- overbearing
- overblown
- overboard
- overbold
- overburden
- overcast
- overcharge
- overclothes
- overcloud
- overcoat
- overcome
- overconfidence
- overcritical
- overcrowd
- overcrowded
- overcrowding
- overdelicate
- overdo
- overdoing
- overdone
- overdraft
- overdraw
- overdrawn account
- overdress
- overdue
- overearly
- overeat
- overemotiona
- overemphasis
- overemphasize
- overestimate
- overestimated
- overestimation
- overexert
- overextend
- overextend oneself
- overfamiliarity
- overfatigue
- overfeed
- overfill
- overflow
- overflowing
- overfull
- overhang
- overhanging
- overhaul
- overhead
- overhear
- overindulge
- overindulgence
- overkill
- overlap
- overlay
- overload
- overlook
- overlooking
- overlord
- overly
- overlying
- overmodest
- overmuch
- overnice
- overnight
- overparticular
- overpass
- overplay
- overplayed
- overpower
- overpowered
- overpowering
- overproduction
- overprotect
- overprotective
- overprotects
- overran
- overrate
- overrated
- overreach
- overreaching
- overreachings
- overreact
- overreacted
- overreacting
- overreacts
- overreckon
- overreckoned
- overreckoning
- overreckons
- overrefined
- overridden
- override
- override/overrule
- overrides
- overriding
- overridings
- overripe
- overrode
- overrule
- overruled
- overrules
- overruling
- overrulings
- overrun
- overrunnings
- overs
- oversalted
- oversaw
- overscrupulous
- overseas
- overseas aid
- overseeing
- overseeings
- overseen
- overseer
- overseer of slaves
- overseers
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- oversell
- oversensitive
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- oversentimental
- overset
- oversexed
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- oversimplification
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- oversize
- oversized
- oversleep
- oversoon
- oversoul
- overspending
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- overspread
- overspreading
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- overstate
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- overstatement
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- oversteppings
- overstock
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- overstrain
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- overstraining
- overstress
- overstressed
- overstresses
- overstressing
- overstrung
- overstuff
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- overstuffed chair
- oversubtle
- oversupplied
- oversupply
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- overswarm
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- overtake
- overtaken
- overtax
- overtaxed
- overtaxes
- overthrew
- overthrow
- overthrower
- overthrowings
- overthrown
- overtime
- overtire
- overtired
- overtiredness
- overtly
- overtone
- overtook
- overtop
- overtopped
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- overtops
- overtrusting
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- overturn
- overturned
- overturnings
- overuse
- overuse strain injuries
- overuse strain injury
- overused
- overused term
- overused terms
- overusing
- overvaluation
- overvalue
- overvalued
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- overvaluing
- overventuresome
- overview
- overweening
- overweigh
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- overweight
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- overwhelm
- overwhelmed
- overwhelming
- overwhelming victory
- overwhelmingly
- overwhelms
- overwork
- overworked
- overwrought
- overzealous
- overzealously
- paddlewheel
- party government
- pass an eye over
- pass over
- passed over
- passes over
- passing over
- passing overs
- pat on head
- pat on the head
- pedal wheel
- people mover
- per head
- per heads
- pigheaded
- pigheadedly
- pigheadedness
- pinhead
- plunge ahead
- popover
- pore over
- poverty
- poverty-stricken person
- preside over
- prevail over
- prime mover
- prison head
- proverb
- pullover
- push ahead
- pushover
- put it over
- put one over on
- put over
- putting over knee
- putting over one knee
- putting over one's knee
- putting over ones knee
- puzzle over
- quick recover
- quick to recover
- raffle wheel
- ragwheel
- rake over coals
- rake over the coals
- ran over
- ratchet wheel
- rave over
- re-cover
- re cover
- re-covered
- re covered
- re-covering
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- re-covers
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- re-discover
- re discover
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- re-discovering
- re discovering
- re-discovers
- re discovers
- recover
- recoverable
- recovering
- recovery
- rediscover
- reign over
- roll over and play dead
- roulette wheel
- rover
- run ahead
- run for cover
- run hands over
- run over
- run roughshod over
- running over
- rush headlong
- rust-covered
- seat of government
- sick in the head
- sign over
- silly over
- skin head
- slipover
- smooth over
- softcover
- sovereign
- sovereign state
- sovereignty
- spearhead
- step over the line
- stew over
- stopover
- sweat over
- swelled head
- swellhead
- swellheadedness
- swing over
- swollen-headed
- take a header
- take cover
- take header
- take-over
- take over from
- taken over
- takeover
- takeover bid
- takeovers
- takes a header
- takes header
- takes over
- takes over from
- taking a header
- taking header
- taking over
- taking over from
- taking overs
- talk off top head
- talk off top of head
- talk over
- talk top head
- talk top of head
- talked off top head
- talked off top of head
- talked over
- talked top head
- talked top of head
- talking head
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- talking off top of head
- talking over
- talking top head
- talking top of head
- talks off top head
- talks off top of head
- talks over
- talks top head
- talks top of head
- tarry over
- think over
- third wheel
- throw over
- throw overboard
- thunderhead
- tide over
- triumph over
- turn over
- turn over a new leaf
- turnover
- two-wheeler
- twowheeler
- uncover
- uncovered
- uncovering
- under cover
- undercover
- undercover cop
- undercover operations
- undercover work
- ungovernable
- ungovernableness
- ungoverned
- US government
- varnish remover
- voice-over
- walk over
- walked over
- walking over
- walkover
- walks over
- warhead
- warm over
- warmed over
- warmed-over
- warmedover
- was all over place
- was all over the place
- was at the head of
- was clover
- was head of
- was one step ahead of
- was over
- was over place
- was over the place
- watch over
- wheel
- wheel of fortune
- wheelbarrow
- wheelperson
- wheels
- wheels within wheels
- where one is heading
- whitehead
- win over
- window covering
- winning over
- work over
- working over
- wrong-headed
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