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Definition of Hotheaded
1. Adjective. Quickly aroused to anger. "A hotheaded commander"
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Choler, Irascibility
2. Adjective. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation. "Madcap escapades"
Language type: Archaicism, Archaism
Similar to: Incautious
Derivative terms: Impetuosity, Impetuousness, Impulsiveness
Definition of Hotheaded
1. a. Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement.
Definition of Hotheaded
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; ''(of a person)'' easily excited or angered. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hotheaded
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hotheaded
Literary usage of Hotheaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1888)
"... had spent more time in reading divinity, and, which marred that divinity, in
the conversation of factious and hotheaded divines: and so, by a mixture of ..."
2. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers (1840)
"... hotheaded, turbulent; granted—but are these crimes? They speak, nay, they
shout, if you will—they do not murder, however, but every day they are ..."
3. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1844)
"... retained a majority in the Councils, in spite of the outcries of certain
hotheaded patriots and of some intriguers sold to the counterrevolution. ..."
4. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Henry Hart Milman (1864)
"The Tory answers, " I know MSS., which Macpherson printed, an not what some
hotheaded drunken undated and anonymous letter in men may have said and done at ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1866)
"even some of ourselves were hotheaded young women in our day, ... But this
hotheaded creature is not Us. \Ve, for our part, long and long ago got used to ..."
6. The Works of Lord Macaulay by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1898)
"But there is no proof that they ever so regarded him, either before that day or
after that day.1 On the The Tory answers, " I know not what some hotheaded ..."
7. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1856)
"'The Tory answers, "I know not what some hotheaded drunken men may have said and
... The writer was evidently a silly hotheaded Jacobite, who knew nothing ..."
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