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ment, memorial, headstrong, adj. 1. stubborn, stubborn as a mule, mulish, obstinate, obdurate, inflexible, adamant, intransigent, intractable, unyielding, pigheaded, bullheaded, muleheaded; willful, self-willed, contrary, perverse, froward, refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious, cross-grained, U.S. Inf. notionate, Archaic. untoward; disobedient, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, fractious, wayward, incorrigible, difficult.
2. rash, reckless, imprudent, incautious, improvident, heedless, unwary, foolhardy; headlong, breakneck, precipitate.

heads-up, adj. alert, aware, on the qui vive, watchful, wide-awake, not missing a trick; quick, expeditious, ready, nimble, on one's toes; bright, sharp, keen, shrewd, perspicacious, astute; opportunist, adaptable, accommodating.

headway¹, n. 1. progress, progression, advance, forward movement or motion; way, passage, procession, procedure.
2. improvement, betterment, advancement, furtherance, promotion.
3. make headway advance, progress, go, proceed; gain, gain ground, get ahead, come on, Inf. come along; roll, cover ground, make strides or rapid strides.

headway¹, n. headroom, room, room to spare, free
passage, clear space, clearance.

headwork, n. thought, hard thought, brainwork, using one's little gray cells; beating or cudgeling one's brains out; cogitation, meditation, contemplation, mulling, pondering; concentration, reasoning, ratiocination, analysis, deduction, problem-solving, riddle-solving, planning; study, homework, hitting the books, burning the midnight oil, lucubration, Inf. pulling an all-nighter, cramming, memorizing; exercising one's brain, mental workout, mental calisthenics,

heady, adj. 1. intoxicating, intoxicative, inebriating, inebriative, inebriant.
2. exciting, thrilling, galvanizing, electrifying, breathtaking; exhilarating, invigorating, stimulating, enlivening, rousing, arousing; overpowering, overwhelming.
3. rash, reckless, foolhardy, heedless, incautious, imprudent, unwary, improvident; impetuous, impulsive, precipitate, headlong, breakneck; headstrong, willful, self-willed, ungovernable, unmanageable.
4. violent, destructive, ruinous, devastating, desolating, ravaging.
5. clever, shrewd, crafty, astute, canny, sharp, knowing, Inf. cagey.

heal, v. 1. cure, work or effect a cure, restore, remedy, repair, rehabilitate, make well, set on one's feet; renew, revivify, regenerate, rejuvenate, reinvigorate, resuscitate, bring round or around; treat, minister to, doctor, nurse, medicate, physic.
2. conciliate, reconcile, settle, patch up, make good or right, set or put straight, square, bring to terms; compose, appease, subdue, pacify; mitigate, ameliorate, meliorate, palliate, assuage, allay, modify, soften.
3. clean, cleanse, purge, purify; disinfect, sterilize, decontaminize, sanitize.
4. mend, be on the mend, recover, recuperate, get well, pull through, come through, come round or around, be oneself again; improve, show improvement, grow better, look up, pick up, perk up.

healing, adj. 1. curing, curative, restoring, restorative, remedial, medicinal, therapeutic, corrective, analeptic, sanative, sanatory.