Meaning of HEADY
| Pronunciation: | | 'hedee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic |
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| | Synonyms: | | exciting, intoxicating |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Head"y\, a. [From {Head}.]
1. Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion;
ungovernable.
All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady,
-- to be violent on one side or the other. --Sir W.
Temple.
2. Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
The liquor is too heady. --Dryden.
3. Violent; impetuous. ``A heady currance.'' --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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