head over heels

Speech parts

1. head over heels - Adjective

2. head over heels - Adverb

3. head over heels - Phrase

Meaning

in disorderly haste

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

heels over head completely deep totally reversed upset backward intensely fascinated utterly desperately wildly enamored smitten madly
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Antonyms

bit lightly moderately detached indifferent mildly
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Examples

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love. Elisabeth Rohm

I don't think you know what it's like to have someone head over heels in love with you. What's the good of a man who's upside down? Frederik Pohl

Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it-love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn's leaves and catches them by surprise. Elizabeth Chandler

People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like these people who can't or won't pay their bills are the dregs of society. Jonathan Raymond

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love. Maria Bello

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas. Norah Jones

Words in the phrase

head over heels

Close letter words and terms

head office head or neck head orgasm head over heels in love with head pain head path