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Hotheaded

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Easily angered; quick-tempered: a hotheaded commander.

adj. Impetuous; rash: a hotheaded decision.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. same as hot-headed.

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

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

adj. quickly aroused to anger

Word Usage

"Boardwalk holds up in episode 2, taking us to Chicago (great work from Stephen Graham as the young, volatile Al Capone) and New York (with Michael Stuhlbarg's quietly sinister Arnold Rothstein) and back again to Atlantic City, where Nucky extorts hotheaded Jimmy for $3000 in payback for the whiskey heist — meaning the boy has to take back the necklace he gave his showgirl mom Gretchen Mol."

Equivalent

incautious ill-natured

Antonym

composed calm level-headed

Form

hotheadedness hotheadedly

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

brainish impulsive impetuous madcap tearaway