Hotheaded

adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.

    "Such an opportunity can hardly again occur to an ancient and grey-haired man; and to see it lost by the madcap spleen of a hot-headed boy!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation wordnet
  2. 2
    quickly aroused to anger wordnet

Synonyms

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fieryincautiousaccident proneaccident-proneadventurousardent

Example

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"Tom is hotheaded, but Mary isn't."

Etymology

From hot + headed.

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