What is "hotheaded" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does hotheaded mean in English? Meaning of hotheaded definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "hotheaded" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "hotheaded": quickly aroused to anger

Adjective

  • Meaning: quickly aroused to anger
  • Example: a hotheaded commander
  • Synonyms: choleric hot-tempered hotheaded irascible quick-tempered short-tempered
  • Similar: ill-natured
  • Meaning of "hotheaded": characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

    Adjective

  • Meaning: characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
  • Example: a hotheaded decision liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers an impetuous display of spending and gambling madcap escapades
  • Synonyms: brainish hotheaded impetuous impulsive madcap tearaway
  • Similar: incautious
  • Adjective: Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered. 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary—Volume II, ch. 1: 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! 1919, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat, ch. 18: "But I am!" flashed the young man, as if he had been misunderstood. "Listen. You're like all boys—hot-headed an' hasty. Let me talk a little," resumed Anderson. 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, The Onion AV Club: Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary—Volume II, ch. 1: 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!1919, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat, ch. 18: "But I am!" flashed the young man, as if he had been misunderstood. "Listen. You're like all boys—hot-headed an' hasty. Let me talk a little," resumed Anderson.2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, The Onion AV Club: Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
  • Synonyms:

    hot-tempered, excitable, explosive, impetuous, passionate, rash, touchy, volatile, easily provoked, short-fused,

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