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adjective

hotheaded adj.

Same as hot-headed.

Synonyms: choleric, irascible, hot-headed, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered.

Liable to act with undue haste and without consideration.

Synonyms: brainish, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway(prenominal).

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Etymology of 'Hotheaded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hotheaded" Quotes from Famous Books

... miss, when we heard that him and the old earl had quarreled and the old gentleman had gone and got married, which was just like the Anglefords—always so hotheaded and flyaway. Yes, it was a cruel blow to Lord Selbie, or so it seemed; but it all turned out right, seeing that there wasn't a heir born to cut him out. Not that any of us had a word to say about the lady the old earl married. As nice and as pretty—begging her pardon—a little lady, though ...

— Nell, of Shorne Mills - or, One Heart's Burden • Charles Garvice

... He would have done daring deeds of valor for her sake, if circumstances had called upon him to comfort himself in such tragic manner; had he been a knight of olden time, he would just have been the chivalrous, hotheaded, but affectionate young man to have entered the lists in his love's behalf, and tilted against tremendous odds, and died unvanquished; but living in the nineteenth century, his impetuosity, being ...

— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett