Hot-headed \Hot"-head`ed\, a.
quickly and easily aroused to anger; fiery; violent; rash;
hasty; impetuous; vehement; as, a hot-headed commander.
[WordNet sense 1] --Macaulay.
Syn: choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered,
quick-tempered, short-tempered.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hotheaded \hotheaded\ adj.
1. same as hot-headed.
Syn: choleric, irascible, hot-headed, hot-tempered,
quick-tempered, short-tempered.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. liable to act with undue haste and without consideration.
Syn: brainish, impulsive, impetuous, madcap,
tearaway(prenominal).
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hotheaded
adj 1: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: choleric,
irascible, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short,
short-tempered]
2: characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or
deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such
impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous
display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades";
(`brainish' is archaic) [syn: impulsive, impetuous, madcap,
tearaway(a), brainish]
WordNet (r) 2.0
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "hotheaded":
accident-prone, ardent, brash, breakneck, careless, combustible,
daredevil, desperate, devil-may-care, explosive, fanatic, fierce,
fiery, flaming, foolhardy, furious, hard-core, harum-scarum, hasty,
headlong, heated, heedless, hot, hot-tempered, hurried,
ill-advised, impetuous, incautious, inconsiderate, inflamed, mad,
madcap, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, passionate,
peppery, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick,
quick-tempered, rash, reckless, red-hot, scorching, short-tempered,
simmering, slap-bang, slapdash, spunky, stormy, tempestuous,
thoughtless, tornadic, totally committed, vehement, violent,
volatile, volcanic, wanton, white-hot, wild, zealous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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