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head-on

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1. head-on - Noun

2. head-on - Adjective

3. head-on - Adverb

4. head-on - Phrase

5. head-on - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

meeting front to front

characterized by direct opposition

with the front foremost

in direct opposition; directly

Source: WordNet

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head on

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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. David Brin

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. Gene Roddenberry

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. Christopher Hitchens

No matter how much leaves are fixed face to face they always look at each other aslant, whereas all fruits end up head-on however carelessly jumbled. A bunch of flowers is a house of colored cards. A heap of fruit is a hive of colored bees. Malcolm de Chazal

They'll be fine, and wiser for the experience. Young minds are brittle. Oldsters, now, we've had some disappointments. We've set aside the notion that we're the center of the universe, so our minds bend with strain instead of meeting it head-on. Scott Lynch

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. Ted Malloch

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