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See definition of hot-headed on Dictionary.com
  • as inexcitable
  • as infiery
  • as inthoughtless
  • as inunadvised
  • as inunthoughtful

synonyms for hot-headed

  • demonstrative
  • fidgety
  • fiery
  • high-strung
  • hysterical
  • impulsive
  • restless
  • skittish
  • temperamental
  • agitable
  • alarmable
  • edgy
  • emotional
  • enthusiastic
  • fierce
  • galvanic
  • hasty
  • hot-tempered
  • impatient
  • impetuous
  • inflammable
  • intolerant
  • irascible
  • mercurial
  • moody
  • nervous
  • neurotic
  • overzealous
  • passionate
  • peevish
  • quick
  • quick-tempered
  • rash
  • reckless
  • sensitive
  • short-fused
  • susceptible
  • testy
  • touchy
  • uncontrolled
  • uneasy
  • vehement
  • violent
  • volatile
  • volcanic
  • ill-advised
  • brash
  • hasty
  • heedless
  • ignorant
  • imprudent
  • inadvisable
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • indiscreet
  • injudicious
  • in the dark
  • rash
  • reckless
  • thoughtless
  • unaware
  • unconsidered
  • uninformed
  • unknowing
  • unsuspecting
  • unwarned
  • unwary
  • unwise

antonyms for hot-headed

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  • calm
  • cold
  • cool
  • laid-back
  • easy
  • easygoing
  • insensitive
  • passive
  • unexcitable
  • uninspired
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    How to use hot-headed in a sentence

    In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
    THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
    “You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
    THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENS
    Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
    THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
    News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
    THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
    From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
    THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUX
    From early morn to early morn again, the hot winds continued, and the air was surcharged with the smell of burning plants.
    THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUX
    But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."
    BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
    But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.
    THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
    And now, escaped from her room, even at this height there came upon him again the hot sluggishness of London.
    BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
    Perhaps their course is wiser than that which hot impatience would prompt—nay, I believe it is.
    GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY
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