From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hot-headed \Hot"-head'ed\, adjective quickly and easily aroused to anger; fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement; as, a hot-headed commander. [WordNet sense 1] --Macaulay.
Syn: choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
hotheaded \hotheaded\ adjective
1. same as {hot-headed}.
Syn: choleric, irascible, hot-headed, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered. [WordNet 1.5]
2. liable to act with undue haste and without consideration.
Syn: brainish, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway(prenominal). [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {choleric}, {irascible}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-tempered}, {short}, {short-tempered}]
2: characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; ('brainish' is archaic) [syn: {impulsive}, {impetuous}, {madcap}, {tearaway(a)}, {brainish}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "hotheaded": accident-prone, ardent, brash, breakneck, careless, combustible, daredevil, desperate, devil-may-care, explosive, fanatic, fierce, fiery, flaming, foolhardy, furious, hard-core, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, heated, heedless, hot, hot-tempered, hurried, ill-advised, impetuous, incautious, inconsiderate, inflamed, mad, madcap, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, passionate, peppery, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick, quick-tempered, rash, reckless, red-hot, scorching, short-tempered, simmering, slap-bang, slapdash, spunky, stormy, tempestuous, thoughtless, tornadic, totally committed, vehement, violent, volatile, volcanic, wanton, white-hot, wild, zealous
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