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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HEADY, a. hed'y. [See Head.] Rash; hasty; precipitate; violent; disposed to rush forward in an enterprise without thought or deliberation; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
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.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (headier; -est) Date: 14th century 1. a. willful, rash <heady opinions> b. violent, impetuous 2. a. tending to intoxicate or make giddy or elated <heady wine> <being in such distinguished company was a heady experience> b. giddy, exhilarated <heady with his success> c. rich <a heady sauce> <a heady variety> d. impressive <a man of heady accomplishments> 3. a. marked by or showing good judgment ; shrewd, intelligent b. intellectually stimulating or demanding • headily adverb • headiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (headier, headiest) 1 (of liquor) potent, intoxicating. 2 (of success etc.) likely to cause conceit. 3 (of a person, thing, or action) impetuous, violent. Derivatives: headily adv. headiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Heady Head"y, a. [From Head.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(headier, headiest) A heady drink, atmosphere, or experience strongly affects your senses, for example by making you feel drunk or excited. ...in the heady days just after their marriage... ADJ: usu ADJ n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hed'i: The translation in the King James Version of propetes, "falling forward," trop. "prone," "ready to do anything," "precipitate," "headlong" (2Ti 3:4, "heady, high-minded," etc., the Revised Version (British and American) "headstrong"; in Ac 19:36, the only other place in the New Testament where propetes occurs, the King James Version has "rashly," the Revised Version (British and American) "rash"). "Headstrong signifies strong in the head or the mind, and heady, full of one's own head" (Crabb, English Synonyms). "Heady confidence promises victory without contest" (Johnson).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Rash, impetuous, hasty, precipitate, inconsiderate, reckless, thoughtless, impulsive. 2. Stubborn. See headstrong. 3. Inflaming, intoxicating, exciting, strong, highly spirituous, apt to affect the head. 4. Violent, impetuous, rushing, headlong.

Moby Thesaurus

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