headed

[ hed-id ]

adjective

1. having a heading heading or course.
2. shaped or grown into a head. heads.
3. having the mentality, personality, emotional control, or quality specified, or possessing a specified number of heads heads (usually used in combination):

   a slow-headed student; a two-headed monster.

headed

/ ˈhɛdɪd /

adjective

1. 1. having a head or heads
   2. ( in combination )

      two-headed

      bullet-headed

2. having a heading

   headed notepaper

3. in combination having a mind or intellect as specified

   thickheaded

Other Words From

• un·headed adjective
• well-headed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of headed¹

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; head, -ed ³

Example Sentences

These crossovers are just the start of a rising trajectory to combat the multi-headed Hydra that’s aging.

From Singularity Hub 

Instead, we are more inclined to believe their ideas are not just wrong-headed but dangerous.

From FiveThirtyEight

You need talented people with different skills, a level-headed leader and patience for initial failures.

From Washington Post

In recent years, Tara started a multi-headed political hydra, an organization called Acronym.

From Freakonomics

Bryson says she has witnessed plenty of muddle-headed thinking in boardrooms and governments because people there have a sci-fi view of AI.

From MIT Technology Review

Here she is in June saying “Trans politics and feminism have never been headed to the same place.”

From The Daily Beast

Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.

From The Daily Beast

Rodriguez now headed home to his kids, as did thousands of other police parents.

From The Daily Beast

He headed west in 1860 for health reasons and to join the gold rush in Colorado.

From The Daily Beast

He had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend early that morning in Baltimore and headed for his native Brooklyn.

From The Daily Beast

But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."

From Project Gutenberg

But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.

From Project Gutenberg

The pig-headed prowler I saw, with my pompon missing from his shoe, and his bonne amie wearing the stolen ring.

From Project Gutenberg

She wondered if he would take his youth in his bald-headed season, like the self-made American millionaire.

From Project Gutenberg

They divested themselves of their coats and vests, and, bare-headed, each advanced to receive his weapon.

From Project Gutenberg

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