headed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdɪd

Etymology 1

head (“noun”) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

headed (not comparable)

1. Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. preprinted at the top.
2. (in combination) Having a head with specified characteristics.

   a large-headed caricature of a politician

3. (in combination) Having hair of a specified color.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• addle-headed
• airheaded
• arrowheaded
• bald-headed
• baldy-headed
• bareheaded
• bearheaded
• bed-headed
• beetle-headed
• beheaded
• big-headed
• bird-headed
• blackheaded
• blockheaded
• bluff-headed
• boneheaded
• bubbleheaded
• buffle-headed
• bull-headed
• bullet-headed
• bumbleheaded

• buttheaded
• chowder-headed
• clear-headed
• cloud-headed
• club-headed
• cone-headed
• cool-headed
• dickheaded
• dim-headed
• double-headed
• dull-headed
• dunderheaded
• empty-headed
• fairheaded
• fatheaded
• feather-headed
• fuckheaded
• fuzzy-headed
• glassyheaded
• gray-headed
• hammer-headed

• hard-headed
• hot-headed
• Janus-headed
• knobheaded
• knuckleheaded
• level-headed
• light-headed
• long-headed
• meatheaded
• melon-headed
• muddle-headed
• mullet-headed
• nail-headed
• nonheaded
• pig-headed
• pinheaded
• pudding-headed
• puzzleheaded
• rattleheaded
• red-headed
• rockheaded

• roundheaded
• rug-headed
• sheep-headed
• shock-headed
• slap-headed
• soft-headed
• soreheaded
• swell-headed
• thick-headed
• tousle-headed
• tow-headed
• triple-headed
• twi-headed
• two-headed
• unheaded
• web-headed
• wooden-headed
• woolly-headed
• wrong-headed

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 tense 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