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Longheaded

Longheaded \Long"head"ed\, a.

  1. Having unusual foresight or sagacity.

  2. having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75. Opposite of brachycephalic.

    Syn: dolichocephalic, dolichocranal, dolichocranic. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] -- Long"-head`ed*ness, n.

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longheaded

a. Having unusual foresight or sagacity.

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Usage examples of "longheaded".

Fortyfour leaves had from one to six tentacles inflected, generally the longheaded ones.

The Afghulis were indeed no fools, and they had a very watchful and longheaded warrior leading them, even if he were not the man the captain thought he was.

He is a longheaded rogue with a shrewd judgment, and, except in his trade, a certain honesty.

Tanu had possessed only thirty teeth and he had been notably longheaded as well as massively built.

More of a small bullet-headed Gaul than a bony longheaded Frank, which meant nothing either.

He was a longheaded citizen, a crisp black crew-cut peppered with premature gray, a limp and lazy body which he threw into chairs in the manner of someone tossing a wet towel, which body, during war years, he had tossed out of various and sundry aircraft.