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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Intoxicating or stupefying: heady liqueur.
  2. adj. Tending to upset the mind or the balance of senses: standing on a heady outcrop of rock.
  3. adj. Serving to exhilarate: the heady news of triumph.
  4. adj. Impetuous and rash: a heady outburst of anger.
  5. adj. Domineering; overbearing: too heady to reason with.
  6. adj. Swift and violent; headlong: a heady current.
  7. adj. Showing intelligence and good judgment; prudent: heady tactics.
  8. adj. Suffering from a headache: a heady, throbbing feeling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Headstrong; rash; precipitate; hurried on by obstinacy or passion.
  2. Apt to affect the head; intoxicating.
  3. Violent; impetuous.
  4. Intelligent.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. intoxicating or stupefying
  2. adj. tending to upset the mind or senses
  3. adj. exhilarating
  4. adj. intellectual
  5. adj. rash or impetuous

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
  2. adj. Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
  3. adj. Violent; impetuous.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
  2. adj. marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters
  3. adj. extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English hedi, hevedi, equivalent to head +‎ -y. (Wiktionary)

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  • Stacie Brunner "Young Shields" by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
    http://tny.gs/casiotone-youngshields

    "there's a shield around us
    we are heady we are groundless
    & we burn our friends & kill their names
    build insecure & petty fames
    & tattoo things that we believe
    stars & skulls & hearts in half-sleeves"

    ..it's a great track - I recommend checking it out! Mar 2, 2012

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