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Heady   /hˈɛdi/   Listen
Heady

adjective
1.
Marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters.  Synonyms: judicious, wise.  "A wise decision"
2.
Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.  Synonym: intoxicating.
3.
Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences.  Synonyms: foolhardy, rash, reckless.  "Became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans" , "A reckless driver" , "A rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"






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"Heady" Quotes from Famous Books



... Seek, and instal your Bee Where nor may winds invade (for winds forbid His homeward load); nor sheep, nor heady kid Trample the flowers; nor blundering heifer pass, Brush off the dew and bruise the tender grass; Nor lizard foe in painted armour prowl Round the rich hives. Ban him, ban every fowl— Bee-bird with Procne of the ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying ...
— Christ, Christianity and the Bible • I. M. Haldeman

... selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore

... exhilaration was gone, leaving a miserable recklessness. Nothing she did was right, nothing turned out well, so what did it all matter? The moonlight flooding down between the tall houses gave her a peculiar heady feeling. "Fey" her father had called her. She laughed. 'But I'm not going home,' she thought. Bored with the street's length; she turned off, and was suddenly in Hanover Square. There was the Church, grey-white, ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... this paper was in Congressman Cresswell's hands. Cresswell lost no time in calling on Senator Smith and pointing out to him that Bles Alwyn was a dangerous Negro: seeking social equality, hating white people, and scheming to make trouble. He was too young and heady. It would be fatal to give such a man office and influence; fatal for the development of the South, and bad ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois


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