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Webster 1913 Edition
Heady
1.
Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
All the talent required is to be hot, to be
heady
, – to be violent on one side or the other. Sir W. Temple.
2.
Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
The liquor is too
heady
. Dryden.
3.
Violent; impetuous.
“A heady currance.” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Heady
HEADY
,Adj.
All the talent required,is to be heady, to be violent on one side or the other.
1.
Apt to affect the head; inflaming; intoxicating; strong; as spirituous liquors. Champagne is a heady wine.
2.
Violent; ;impetuous; as a heady current. [Not usual.]Definition 2024
heady
heady
English
Adjective
heady (comparative headier, superlative headiest)
- intoxicating or stupefying
- The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
- tending to upset the mind or senses
- We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
- exhilarating
- The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
- intellectual
- Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
- rash or impetuous
- He made too heady promises, and when it came time, he was never able to fulfill them.