Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Anthropology Dolichocephalic.
  • adjective Foresighted; wise.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a long head; in ethnology, dolichocephalic.
  • Shrewd; far-seeing; discerning: as, a long-headed man.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having unusual foresight or sagacity.
  • adjective having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75. Opposite of brachycephalic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having unusual foresight or sagacity.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a dolichocephalic head

Etymologies

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long +‎ headed

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Examples

  • They are brown and black, curly and crisp-haired, short and tall, and longheaded.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • Behind their enigmatic smiles, longheaded politicians look farther downfield than most.

    How Much Change Is Change? 2008

  • The president is thoroughly unschooled in constitutional law and ill-equipped to recognize gifted and longheaded minds — for example, Chief Justice John Marshall and Associate Justices Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis D. Brandeis or Robert Jackson.

    Still More On Miers 2005

  • Faucet rode a longheaded bay with work collar scars on its shoulders.

    Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004

  • The figure seated on a large boulder at the foot of a round tower was that of a broadshouldered deepchested stronglimbed frankeyed redhaired freelyfreckled shaggybearded widemouthed largenosed longheaded deepvoiced barekneed brawnyhanded hairylegged ruddyfaced sinewyarmed hero.

    Ulysses 2003

  • They were long-limbed, longheaded, with huge myopic eyes.

    The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001

  • A very longheaded captain, the one who led the enemy tonight.

    Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995

  • 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.

    Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995

  • He was also a longheaded sort of man, in spite of his lack of years.

    Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993

  • Aybas had long since realized that these hill folk were more longheaded than Count Syzambry realized.

    Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

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