[syn: foolhardy, heady, rash, reckless]
The 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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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