Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Intoxicating or stupefying: heady liqueur.
- adj. Tending to upset the mind or the balance of senses: standing on a heady outcrop of rock.
- adj. Serving to exhilarate: the heady news of triumph.
- adj. Impetuous and rash: a heady outburst of anger.
- adj. Domineering; overbearing: too heady to reason with.
- adj. Swift and violent; headlong: a heady current.
- adj. Showing intelligence and good judgment; prudent: heady tactics.
- adj. Suffering from a headache: a heady, throbbing feeling.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Headstrong; rash; precipitate; hurried on by obstinacy or passion.
- Apt to affect the head; intoxicating.
- Violent; impetuous.
- Intelligent.
Wiktionary
- adj. intoxicating or stupefying
- adj. tending to upset the mind or senses
- adj. exhilarating
- adj. intellectual
- adj. rash or impetuous
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
- adj. Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
- adj. Violent; impetuous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
- adj. marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters
- adj. extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic
Etymologies
- From Middle English hedi, hevedi, equivalent to head + -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Once he heard that, he seemed to lose interest in Swindon Usain Bolt's ex-lover Gemma Jones recalls their heady days together”
The Guardian: This week: George Osborne, Katrin Radmacher and Wayne Rooney
“The end result recalls the heady absurdism of Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) spiked with Eastern antagonisms.”
“He recalls the heady days of their early relationship: "Our minds moved fast and at that point in sync.”
The Guardian: Tony Blair's memoirs: Gordon Brown holds fire over old rival's criticisms
“If he's a Fake Karim and he's a Fake Rem and they keep on tweeting and maybe a Fake Zaha enters the fray, we could really be in for a bit of fun, something recalling the heady days of 2005 when The Gutter peaked in hilarious awesomeness.”
“He recalls the heady economic libertarianism of the 1980s: One of the illusions of the Thatcher era, now laid bare by the economic crisis, was that of 'financial self-empowerment'.”
“There are a number of items which critics of President Bush's "Faith Based and Community Initiatives" program usually bring up, namely the heady Church v. State dilemma inherent to the program itself.”
Michael Standaert: Social Entrepreneurship and Alternatives to Faith-Based Welfare ...
“Recalling the heady days of 1999, when Plaid took 17 Assembly seats and Labour failed to win the majority it expected, Mr Wigley said: At the time, I described what happened as a silent earthquake.”
“A German CEO called the heady conclave "a refreshment for the brain" but complained that the forum was losing its focus, which, he claimed, would be easier to regain back in the Swiss resort town.”
“To help explain the falloff, recall the heady reformist atmosphere of the Second Vatican Council, which began when John XXIII summoned his bishops to Rome in 1962.”
“August 16, 2005 at 11: 18 am recall the heady days of the (first) Internet boom, where the self-anointed “Digerati†would engage in a similar, self-congratulatory circle-j***. except that anyone can start a blog in 10 seconds and start writing every day, and in less than a year get enough links to be on the list.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘heady’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Words or Phrases I Should Use In My N...
So I've always kind of eschewed the notion of producing 50,000 words of crap in a single month, but somehow something possessed me to try for it this year. Add stuff to this list and I promise I'll...
you're something ..., sticky rice, plinth, educable, resplendent, albinism, bowling pin, tappen, emerod, Hottentottenpoten..., heady, handlebar mustache and 19 more...
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Dean Koontz Life Expectancy
Words I'm learning or investigating that I found by reading Life Expectancy (not all words are in the book).
chutzpah, luminous, torchieres, dunderheaded, inane, lummox, fox-trot, rumba, cha-cha, tango, swing, flub and 37 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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amagnano's Words
truculent, churlish, antipathy, sociopathy, loquacious, disheveled, pouilly-fuisse, enamored, marked, assuage, ascetic, pagan and 190 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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deidionysus's list
Words, words, words!
cartesian, shavian, dithyramb, dreadnaught, lea, adamantine, titanomachy, theomachy, aethereal, ambrosia, ambrosial, aether and 183 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
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"Words, words, words."
abase, abject, abstruse, adjutant, altercation, altruistic, angst, anodyne, anomie, ape, apprehensive, aquiline and 310 more...
Tweets
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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