headed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛdɪd

Etymology 1

From head (“noun”) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

headed (not comparable)

1. Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. preprinted at the top.

   Antonyms: unheaded; headless

2. (in combination) Having a head or brain with specified characteristics.

   a large-headed caricature of a politician

   a mad-headed young man

3. (in combination) Having hair of a specified color.
4. (of hardware) Having been headed: having had a head formed (by deformation such as die-stamping).

   Antonyms: headless; unheaded

Derived terms

• addleheaded
• addle-headed
• airheaded
• arrowheaded
• baldheaded
• bald-headed
• bald-headed hermit
• bald-headed row
• baldy-headed
• bareheaded
• bare-headed
• bar-headed goose
• bearheaded
• bed-headed
• beefheaded
• beetle-headed
• beheaded
• big-headed
• big-headed rice rat
• big-headed turtle
• bird-headed
• blackheaded
• black-headed
• black-headed bunting
• black-headed duck
• black-headed greenfinch
• black-headed gull
• black-headed parrot
• black-headed pasture cockchafer
• black-headed saltator
• blockheaded
• bluff-headed
• Boettger's two-headed snake
• boneheaded
• broad-headed bug
• bubbleheaded
• buffle-headed
• bulbheaded
• bullet-headed
• bull headed
• bull-headed
• bullheaded
• bumbleheaded
• bun-headed
• buttheaded
• chowder-headed
• chowderheaded
• chuckleheaded
• clearheaded
• clear-headed
• cloud-headed
• club-headed
• cone-headed
• coneheaded
• coolheaded
• cool-headed
• dickheaded
• dim-headed
• double-headed
• duffle-headed
• dull-headed
• dunder-headed
• dunderheaded
• eggheaded
• empty-headed
• fair-headed
• fairheaded
• fatheaded
• feather-headed
• flat-headed
• flat-headed cat
• fuckheaded
• fulvous-headed tanager
• fuzzyheaded
• fuzzy-headed
• giddy-headed
• glassyheaded
• golden-headed cisticola
• gray-headed
• greater yellow-headed vulture
• green-headed sunbird
• grey-headed
• grey-headed bunting
• grey-headed chickadee
• grey-headed woodpecker
• hammer-headed
• hammer-headed shark
• hardheaded
• hard-headed
• hawk-headed parrot
• headedly
• headedness
• hotheaded
• hot-headed
• idleheaded
• Janus-headed
• knobheaded
• knuckleheaded
• large-headed
• large-headed rice rat
• large-headed water snake
• level-headed
• level headed
• light-headed
• long-headed
• longheaded
• lunkheaded
• meatheaded
• melon-headed
• melon-headed whale
• mop-headed
• muddleheaded
• muddle-headed
• mullet-headed
• muttonheaded
• nail-headed
• nonheaded
• pale-headed rosella
• peanut-headed lanternfly
• pig-headed
• pigheaded
• pin-headed
• pinheaded
• pudding-headed
• pumpkin-headed
• purple-headed yogurt slinger
• puzzleheaded
• rattleheaded
• red-headed
• redheaded
• red-headed Eskimo
• red-headed honeyeater
• red-headed stepchild
• rockheaded
• roundheaded
• round-headed bush clover
• rug-headed
• sapheaded
• sheep-headed
• shitheaded
• shock-headed
• slap-headed
• softheaded
• soft-headed
• sooty-headed bulbul
• sooty-headed wren
• soreheaded
• spiny-headed worm
• swell-headed
• swollen-headed
• thick-headed
• thickheaded
• thousand-headed cabbage
• three-headed
• tousle-headed
• towelheaded
• tow-headed
• towheaded
• triple-headed
• turnip-headed
• twi-headed
• two-headed
• unheaded
• unique-headed bug
• weak-headed
• web-headed
• white-headed
• white-headed babbler
• white-headed duck
• white-headed eagle
• woodenheaded
• wooden-headed
• wool-headed
• woolly-headed
• wooly-headed
• wrongheaded
• wrong-headed
• yellow-headed amazon
• yellow-headed blackbird

 

Translations

having the sender's name, etc., pre-printed at the top

having a head with specified characteristics

• Bulgarian: озаглавен (bg) (ozaglaven)
• Finnish: -päinen (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: -hovda

• Old Norse: -hǫfðaðr, -hǫfði
• Swedish: -hövdad (sv), -huvad (sv)

going in a certain direction

• Bulgarian: тръгнал (bg) (trǎgnal), отправил се към (otpravil se kǎm)

Etymology 2

See head (verb).

Verb

headed

1. simple past and past participle of head

   Smith headed the team last summer.

   We headed toward the ocean.

Adjective

headed (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Heading in a certain direction.

   southward-headed caravans

Anagrams

• dehead