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hotheaded

hotheaded \hotheaded\ adj.

  1. same as hot-headed.

    Syn: choleric, irascible, hot-headed, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered.

  2. liable to act with undue haste and without consideration.

    Syn: brainish, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway(prenominal).

Wiktionary
hotheaded

a. Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; ''(of a person)'' easily excited or angered.

WordNet
hotheaded
  1. adj. quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: choleric, irascible, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered]

  2. characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic) [syn: impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway(a), brainish]

Usage examples of "hotheaded".

A sense of tranquillity prevailed, for whatever resentments any of the younger, more hotheaded men felt for their status, no slave had run away from The Forks for years.

Was he too young and hotheaded to realise that besmirching Arthur would also mean disinheriting himself?

Everyone knows Richard Ballinger was a hotheaded, neck-or-nothing sort, just like his father before him.

Well, Tellian's been worried about Mathian for some time, and when he discovered that he and Haladhan had been quietly discussing certain `contingencies' with the younger and more hotheaded of the minor lords here in Glanharrow and across the district line in Tharkonswald, he got even more worried.

Well, Tellians been worried about Mathian for some time, and when he discovered that he and Haladhan had been quietly discussing certain contingencies with the younger and more hotheaded of the minor lords here in Glanharrow and across the district line in Tharkonswald, he got even more worried.

Well, Tellian's been worried about Mathian for some time, and when he discovered that he and Haladhan had been quietly discussing certain 'contingencies' with the younger and more hotheaded of the minor lords here in Glanharrow and across the district line in Tharkonswald, he got even more worried.

Unfortunately this foolish man took it upon himself to become embroiled in a hotheaded fashion with some fellow patient at the clinic, as a result of which, and I need not go into details, he is now in Brighton Central Hospital suffering from second-degree burns.