hotheaded

[ hot-hed-id ]

/ ˈhɒtˈhɛd ɪd /

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adjective

hot or fiery in spirit or temper; impetuous; rash: Hotheaded people shouldn't drive cars.

easily angered; quick to take offense.

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Origin of hotheaded

First recorded in1635–45; hot + head + -ed³

OTHER WORDS FROM hotheaded

hot·head·ed·ly, adverbhot·head·ed·ness, noun

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How to use hotheaded in a sentence

Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
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Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
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Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
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There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
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Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
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Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
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News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
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From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
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British Dictionary definitions for hotheaded

hot-headed

adjective

impetuous, rash, or hot-tempered

Derived forms of hot-headed

hot-headedly, adverbhot-headedness, noun

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