broad vs head-on

broad

adj
  • Unsubtle; obvious. 

  • General rather than specific. 

  • Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. 

  • Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. 

  • Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained. 

  • Plain; evident. 

  • Free; unrestrained; unconfined. 

  • Strongly regional. 

  • Wide in extent or scope. 

  • Velarized, i.e. not palatalized. 

noun
  • A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. 

  • A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. 

  • A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. 

  • A kind of floodlight. 

head-on

adj
  • Direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating. 

  • Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion. 

noun
  • A collision from the front. 

adv
  • With the front of a vehicle. 

  • With direct confrontation. 

How often have the words broad and head-on occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )