heady

3 definitions found

heady - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Heady \Head"y\ (h[e^]d"[y^]), a. [From Head.]
     1. Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion;
        ungovernable.
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              All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady,
              -- to be violent on one side or the other. --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
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     2. Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
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              The liquor is too heady.              --Dryden.
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     3. Violent; impetuous. "A heady currance." --Shak.
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heady - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  heady
      adj 1: marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense
             in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a
             wise decision" [syn: judicious, wise, heady]
      2: extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic [syn:
         heady, intoxicating]
      3: 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"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to
         climb Mount Everest" [syn: foolhardy, heady, rash,
         reckless]

heady - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "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