The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of hotheaded English)
Usage examples of "hot-headed".
But mark, if with all your energy and zeal you fail, or if you pass into a leaderette in some Freemason journal, and your zeal is held up as fanaticism and your energy as imprudence, the whole world will regard you as a hot-headed young fool, and will ask with rage and white lips, What is the Bishop doing in allowing these young men to take the reins into their own hands and drive the chariot of the sun?
They were the romantic party that attracted all the hot-headed and adventurous youth.
He wrote with more perspicuity than he thought, and his hot-headed democracy has done a fearful injury to his country.
The landsknechten know the wages of hot-headed charges -- and those Turks out there are Janissaries, the best fighting men in the East.
On the fall of the throne, and at the panic caused by the Prussian invasion, during a period of anarchy which equaled that of July, 1789, there were, according to Roederer, almost as many clubs as there were communes, 26,000, one for every village containing five or six hot-headed, boisterous fellows, or roughs, (tape-durs), with a clerk able to pen a petition.
We will be throwing away all that we had hoped so much from - Southern hot-headed dash, reckless gallantry, spirit of adventure, readiness to lead forlorn hopes.