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Hotheaded

adjective
1.
Quickly aroused to anger.  Synonyms: choleric, hot-tempered, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered.
2.
Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.  Synonyms: brainish, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway.  "Liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers" , "An impetuous display of spending and gambling" , "Madcap escapades"





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"Hotheaded" Quotes from Famous Books



... writers who want us to believe that Wagner as a boy of fourteen had a fully developed character and clearly foresaw the Ring and Tristan as things before him, only waiting to be accomplished. Richard was still a boy, impulsive to the point of madness, a hotheaded fanatic, with his character still in the making, his artistic purposes neither defined nor capable of being defined. He was not yet a great man. But he had the makings of a great man in him; and in the meantime it is much that ...
— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman


Words linked to "Hotheaded" :   archaism, archaicism, incautious, ill-natured


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