hot-headed
/ˌhɒtˈhɛdɪd
/adjective
Having an impetuous or quick-tempered nature: a hot-headed youth...
- He did not get visibly angry; apparently he was not the hot-headed type.
- Afterward, federal troops pushed the crowd into town, where its more hotheaded members harried the soldiers.
- Stott, a former ice hockey player, has shrugged off the slightly hot-headed image of his teenage years.
Synonyms
impetuous, impulsive, headstrong, reckless, rash, irresponsible, foolhardy, madcap, wild, excitable, volatile, precipitate, overhasty, unruly, fiery, hot-tempered, quick-tempered
informal harum-scarum, crazy, crackpot
archaic hasty
Derivatives
hot-headedly
/ adverb ...- I said hot-headedly. ‘Look at you in your fancy-pants shirt, shorts and Jesus sandals - you're marinating in the sun, and you'll be eaten for roast dinner!’
- That is what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price.
- Indeed it is hard to see him clashing hot-headedly with anyone.
hot-headedness
/ noun ...- The epitome of Spanish hot-headedness, Lola is charming and irritating in equal parts.
- And if it does refer to hot-headedness, is it any surprise that it was applied widely among the hot-headed Zealots?
- Moreover, you need not think that hot-headedness or an unhappy childhood have given him some uncommon taste for violence; he acts as the interpreter of the situation, that's all.
Rhymes
- social weaver bird
- social welfare
- social will
- social work
- social worker
- sociate
- sociation
- sociative
- socies
- societal
- societally
- societarian
- societarianism
- societary
- societe anonyme
- societism
- society
- society column
- society columnist
- Society Islands
- Society of Jesus
- society page
- Socinian
- Socinianise
- Socinianism