Advertisement
Advertisement
hot-headed
adjective as in excitable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- 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
adjective as in fiery
Strongest matches
adjective as in thoughtless
Strongest matches
adjective as in unadvised
adjective as in unthoughtful
Weak matches
- antisocial
- apathetic
- asocial
- blind
- boorish
- brash
- deaf
- discourteous
- disregardful
- egocentric
- hasty
- heedless
- impolite
- inattentive
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- indelicate
- indifferent
- indiscreet
- insensitive
- listless
- madcap
- neglectful
- negligent
- primitive
- rash
- reckless
- rude
- self-centered
- selfish
- sharp
- short
- tactless
- uncaring
- unceremonious
- unconcerned
- undiplomatic
- ungracious
- unheeding
- unkind
- unmindful
- unrefined
- unthinking
Example Sentences
“Please forgive me if I was somewhat hot-headed,” Khrushchev said, ending his speech with a smile.
A driver who murdered a father-of-two by running him over in a "senseless act of hot-headed violence" has been jailed for life.
Jailing him at Sheffield Crown Court for a minimum term of 26 years, Mr Justice Morris said the attack had been "a deliberate and senseless act of hot-headed and wanton violence" that resulted in the death of Mr Marriott and life-changing consequences for many others.
A long career in sports journalism followed, including working for ITV's Grampian TV, where the closest he got to a fight was with Sir Alex Ferguson, the notoriously hot-headed manager for Aberdeen in the 1980s.
Surely in the century-plus history of cinema, other actors have created characters as sexy, powerful and hot-headed as Taylor’s Perfidia, nine months pregnant and blasting away with an automatic rifle, but I’m not sure anyone else has ever packaged all three with such potency.
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse