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Definition of "longheaded" [long•head•ed]

  • Anthropology Dolichocephalic. (adjective)
  • Foresighted; wise. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "longheaded" in a sentence
  • "They are brown and black, curly and crisp-haired, short and tall, and longheaded."
  • "Behind their enigmatic smiles, longheaded politicians look farther downfield than most."
  • "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."