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heady

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Adjective, Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective heady has 3 senses

  • heady(s = adj.all) judicious, wise - marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a wise decision"
  • heady(s = adj.all) intoxicating - extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic; Array
  • heady(s = adj.all) foolhardy, rash, reckless - marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"
  • Derived form noun head5

CIDE DICTIONARY

headya. [From Head.].
  •  Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.  [1913 Webster]
    "All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, -- to be violent on one side or the other."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.  [1913 Webster]
    "The liquor is too heady."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Violent; impetuous.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

heady, adj. (headier, headiest)
1 (of liquor) potent, intoxicating.
2 (of success etc.) likely to cause conceit.
3 (of a person, thing, or action) impetuous, violent.

Derivative
headily adv. headiness n.

THESAURUS

heady

agitating, astute, barmy, breathtaking, cagey, charged, cliff-hanging, disobedient, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, exciting, exhilarating, foam-flecked, foamy, frothy, galvanic, headstrong, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, inebriant, inebriating, inebriative, inflammatory, insubordinate, intoxicating, intoxicative, irresponsible, jarring, jolting, lathery, lawless, licentious, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, mutinous, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perspicacious, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking, rampant, ravishing, reinless, sagacious, savvy, self-willed, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soapy, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, spumose, spumous, spumy, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suddy, sudsy, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungoverned, unreined, unrestrained, unsettling, upsetting, wildcat, willful, yeasty

ROGET THESAURUS

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Obstinacy

N obstinacy, obstinateness, obstinacy, tenacity, cussedness, perseverance, immovability, old school, inflexibility, obduracy, obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side, self-will, contumacy, perversity, pervicacy, pervicacity, indocility, bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism, opiniatry, opiniativeness, fixed idea, fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness, mule, opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator, stickler, dogmatist, bigot, zealot, enthusiast, fanatic, obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened, inflexible, balky, immovable, unshakable, not to be moved, inert, unchangeable, inexorable, mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed, dogged, sullen, sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected, willful, self-willed, perverse, resty, restive, restiff, pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly, heady, headstrong, entete, contumacious, crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted, prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed, infatuated, stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted, hard-mouthed, hidebound, unyielding, impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible, unpersuadable, intractable, untractable, incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason, crotchety, obstinately, non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie.


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