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Heady

Definition: Heady

Heady

Adjective

1. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.

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Date "heady" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Heady \Head"y\, adjective. [From Head.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Heady

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Heady wilful; affecting the head, as "The wine or beer is heady." (German, heftig, ardent, strong, self-willed.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonym: Heady

Synonym: intoxicating (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Heady

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Obstinacy

Willful, self-willed, perverse; resty, restive, restiff; pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete; contumacious; crossgrained.

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Crosswords: Heady

English words defined with "heady": Headily, Headiness. (references)
Specialty definitions using "heady": Half-seas OverMaut gets abune the Meal. (references)

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Modern Usage: Heady

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson)

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Commercial Usage: Heady

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Books

  • Virginia Avery's Hats: A Heady Affair (reference)

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Historic Usage: Heady

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John Locke

1690

Fourthly, But if the unlawful acts done by the magistrate be maintained (by the power he has got), and the remedy which is due by law, be by the same power obstructed; yet the right of resisting, even in such manifest acts of tyranny, will not suddenly, or on slight occasions, disturb the government: for if it reach no farther than some private men's cases, though they have a right to defend themselves, and to recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them; yet the right to do so will not easily engage them in a contest, wherein they are sure to perish; it being as impossible for one, or a few oppressed men to disturb the government, where the body of the people do not think themselves concerned in it, as for a raving mad-man, or heady malcontent to overturn a well settled state; the people being as little apt to follow the one, as the other. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Use in Literature: Heady

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The phrase (r)heady woman was invented for her.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Heady

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Economic History

Vietnam

But despite this improvement, Vietnam has a long way to go to reach the heady levels of 1996 when licenses were issued for US$ 8.6 billion in new foreign investment projects. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Heady

"Heady" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heady" is used about 343 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%34315,445

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Name Usage Frequency: Heady

The following table summarizes the usage of "heady" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
HeadyLast name1,0009,125
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Expressions: Heady

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "heady": heady-smell, heady-sweet.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Heady

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

heady lena

8

heady

5

heady wine

2

heady glass pipe

2
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Modern Translations: Heady

Language Translations for "heady"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

trullosës (stunning), trallisës (entrancing), marramendës (dizzy, giddy, tearing, vertiginous), i rrëmbyer (brusque, fractious, hot-headed, impetuous, impulsive, precipitate, precipitous, rapt, short tempered, tempestuous), i nxituar (cursory, hasty, headstrong, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hurried, imprudent, precipitant, premature, previous, rash, reckless, slapdash), dehës. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), ‏مسكر (candied, glace, inebriant, intoxicant, spirit, sugared, sweetened), ‏عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, impetuous, knockabout, outrageous, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic), ‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стремителен (brash, headlong, impetuous, puffy, slashing, soaring, tearaway, torrential, vehement), упоителен (anaesthetic, anesthetic, intoxicant, knockout), шеметен (dizzy, giddy, vertiginous), опиянителен (enchanting, intoxicating). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

兴奋 (Effervesce, Effervesced, Effervescing, Exaltation, Excitatory, Excitement, Exhilarate, Exhilarated, Exhilarating, mind-blowing, thrill, thrilled, thrilling, tingle). (various references)

   

Czech

  

tìžký (bad, chunky, dangerous, difficult, grave, grievous, hard, heavy, labored, laboured, man-sized, ponderous, severe, stodgy, thick, uphill, weighty), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), opojný (heavy, intoxicating). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مست کننده , تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), عجول شدید, بی پروا (Adventurer, Audacious, Confident, Daredevil, Dashing, Harebrained, Headlong, Heedless, Impetuous, Inconsiderate, Rash, Reckless, Slapdash, Unadvised, Unscrupulous). (various references)

   

French

  

sévère, obstiné (headstrong), impétueux (headstrong), grisant, capiteux. (various references)

   

German

  

voreilig (forwardly, hasty, headily, precipitate, prematurely, previous, rash, rashly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κεφαλιωμένοσ, μεθυστικόσ (intoxicant, intoxicating), ορμητικόσ (brash, dashing, impetuous, impulsive, vehement). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משכר (inebriating, intoxicant, intoxicating), מסחרר (dizzy, dizzying, giddy, vertiginous). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hirtelen (abrupt, abruptly, all at once, all of a sudden, bang, bulge, hasty, headlong, on a sudden, out of the blue, plump, pop, precocious, presently, raid, rapid, rashly, sharp, short, skedaddle, slap dash, slap-dash, smack, snap, snoring, spasmodic, speedily, sudden, suddenly, to pop out, to pull up, to yaw), heves (acute, boisterous, explosive, fervent, fervid, fulmination, heated, hot, hot-tempered, impetuous, intense, keen, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, poignant, rampageous, sanguine, short tempered, snoring, to run the gauntlet of adverse criticism, vehement, warm). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

serampangan (haphazard), sembarangan (careless, just any, reckless), keras (crusty, hard, keen, killing, loud, rigorous, severe, strict, stringent, tang, wicked), gegabah (premature, rash, reckless), ceroboh (bum, careless, reckless, wanton). (various references)

   

Italian

  

violento (forcible, furious, heavy, hot, rampant, rough, severe, sharp, swingeing, tough, violent, wild), impetuoso (boisterous, dashing, forceful, headlong, hot, hot-headed, impetuous, impulsive, rapid, slapdash, slaphappy, sweeping, vehement, violent), eccitante (excitant, exciting, stimulant, stirring, thrilling). (various references)

   

Manx

  

thollaneagh (dizzy, giddy, sporadic, vertiginous), meshtoil (drunken, sottish, vinous), lajer (able-bodied, cogent, forcible, forte, hard, heavy, high-power, high-powered, lusty, potent, powerful, pronounced, rich, sound, stark, stout, strong, vigorous, vigorous as plant). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadyhay

   

Portuguese

  

violento (blustering, boisterous, desperate, drastic, elbow room, fierce, forceful, forcibly, furious, hot, hot-brained, hothouse, hottentot, impetus, jogtrot, judas-coloured, judas-hole, rabid, racking, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, red, rough, rude, ruffianly, sledge hammer, smart, smashing, spasmodic, splitting, stormy, swashing, swingeing, tearing, tempestuous, thunderous, tough, towering, two-fisted, uncontrollable, vehement, viatic, violent, virulent), rima (catchword, clink, pile, rhyme, rime), que sobe cabeça, precipitado (brash, cursory, deposit, desperate, hasty, headlong, heehaw, hot-brained, hurriedly, hurry, impolitic, impudence, precipitate, precipitation, previous life, rash, unadvised, unthinking, unwary, unwise), inebriante (intoxicant), impetuoso (dashing, fiery, forcible, furl, headlong, hot, hot tempered, hot-brained, hot-headed, impetuous, lawless, licentious, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, riotous, slapdash, tearing, tempestuous, vehement, violent, volcanic), arrebatado (desperate, furious, harum scarum, impetuous, passionate, rapt, rapturous, rash, rumbustious, stormy, towering, warm). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent, wanton), nãvalnic (dashing, impetuous, impetuously, rash, stormy, unbridled), impetuos (dashing, fiercely, headlong, high-spirited, hothead, hot-headed, impetuous, impetuously, raging, rash, robustious, stormy, tumultuous, tumultuously), îmbãtãtor (intoxicant, intoxicating). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

горячий (ardent, boiling hot, burning, earnest, fervent, fervid, fiery, full of beans, glowing, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, mettled, red-hot, vehement, warm blooded), внезапный (abrupt, sudden, unexpected), поспешный (hasty, hurried, hurry, premature, rash, rough and ready, slapdash). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tvrdoglav (crabby, cross-grained, die hard, hard bitten, hardheaded, headstrong, intractable, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, pigheaded, pig-headed, stiff necked, stubborn, willful), plahovit (effusive, fiery, hotspur, impetuous, tumultuary, ugly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lleno de (alive, entirely, full of, fully), fuerte (able, bad, big, bold, bouncing, brawny, burly, cast iron, cogent, ebullient, fierce, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, full-blooded, grievous, hard, Hardy, hearty, heavy, hefty, high, intense, long, loud, lurid, lusty, manly, metier, mighty, potent, powerful, raw, ripe, robust, rugged, severe, sharp, sharply, solid, spanking, stiff, stoutly, strident, strong, sturdy, telling, throbbing, tough, vigorous), embriagador (intoxicant, intoxicating), cabezudo (bullish, stubborn, thickheaded). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

häftig (ardent, be furious, blustery, darting, excessive, explosive, exquisite, ferocious, fierce, flaming, fulminant, furious, groovy, gusty, heavy, impetuous, intense, irascible, jazzy, keen, passionate, quick, quick tempered, rude, smart, throe, vehement, violent, virulent, volcanic), rusande (flit, intoxicant, rampageous, scud, scurry, scuttle), förhastad (blindfolded, hasty, improvident, overhasty, previous, rash, snap). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, enterprising, fly, guarded, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, healty, hearty, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sappy, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, swinging, tenacious, vigorous, virile, virulent), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), kafa yapan, inatçı (balky, bullet-head, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, contumacious, cussed, die hard, difficult, dogged, dour, fractious, hard bitten, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, hard-nosed, headstrong, indocile, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate person, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stern, sticker, stickler, sticky, stiff necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), dik kafalı (fractious, headstrong, intractable, obstinate, pigheaded, pig-headed, rigid, self-opinionated, spiky, stiff necked, strongheaded, unsubmissive), düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless), atak (attack, confident, dapper, daring, dashing, gutsy, mettled, mettlesome, militant, push, pushful, pushing, rash, reckless, spunky, Venturous), açıkgöz (alert, astute, canny, cunning, fly, hip, knowing, leery, nimble, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, smart, spry, up and coming, vigilant, wide awake), çarpan (factor, multiplier, striking). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

стрімкий (abrupt, bluff, bluffy, craggy, dashing, impetuous, precipitant, tear away), необачливий. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hung hăng (aggressive, scalp, swashbuckling, truculent, volcanic), nóng nảy (hasty, hot-headed, hot-tempered), dễ bốc lên đầu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Heady

LanguageDateSource2 Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 4
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintProdotai propeteiV tetufwmenoi filhdonoi mallon h filoqeoi
Latin405VulgateProditores protervi tumidi voluptatium amatores magis quam Dei
Middle English1395WyclifWith out benygnyte, traitouris, ouerthwert, bollun with proude thouytis, blynde, loueris of lustis more than of God,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleTraytours heddy hye mynded gredy apon volupteousnes more then the lovers of god
Jacobean English1611King JamesTraitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Victorian English1833WebsterTraitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Basic English1964OgdenFalse to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

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Matched Bible Translations: Heady

Language2 Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 4
BulgarianА нечестиви човеци и измамници ще се влошават повече и повече, като мамят и бъдат мамени.
Cebuanomabudhion, madalidalion, tigpaburot, nga nagahigugma sa kalipayan inay sa Dios unta hinoon,
Chinese賣 主 賣 友 、 任 意 妄 為 、 自 高 自 大 、 愛 宴 樂 不 愛   神 .
Croatianizdajice, brzopletnici, naduti, ljubitelji užitka više nego ljubitelji Boga.
Danishforræderske, fremfusende, opblæste, Mennesker, som mere elske Vellyst, end de elske Gud,
DutchVerraders, roekeloos, opgeblazen, meer liefhebbers der wellusten dan liefhebbers Gods;
Finnishpettureita, väkivaltaisia, pöyhkeitä, hekumaa enemmän kuin Jumalaa rakastavia;
Frenchtraîtres, emportés, enflés d`orgueil, aimant le plaisir plus que Dieu,
GermanVerräter, Frevler, aufgeblasen, die mehr lieben Wollust denn Gott,
Haitian CreoleY'a mòde an trèt, y'a fè kòlè fasil, lògèy va gonfle lestonmak yo. Y'ap pito plezi pase sèvis Bondye.
HungarianÁrulók, vakmerõk, felfuvalkodottak, inkább a gyönyörnek, mint Istennek szeretõi.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariMereka suka mengkhianat, angkuh dan tidak berpikir panjang. Mereka lebih suka pada kesenangan dunia daripada menuruti Allah.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamapembelot, angkara, sombong, melebihkan kesukaan daripada mengasihi Allah,
Italiantraditori, sfrontati, accecati dall'orgoglio, attaccati ai piaceri più che a Dio,
Korean배 반 하 여 " 며, 조 급 하 며, 자 하 며, 쾌 락 을 사 랑 하 기 를 하 나 님 사 랑 하 " 것 보 다 " 하 며,
LatvianNodevçji, nekaunîgi, uzpûtîgi, kas vairâk mîlçs baudas nekâ Dievu,
MaoriHe hunga taku tangata, he hunga hikaka, whakakake, to ratou aroha kei nga mahi takaro kahore ia ki te Atua;
Modern Greekπροδοται, προπετεις, τετυφωμενοι, φιληδονοι μαλλον παρα φιλοθεοι,
Norwegiansvikefulle, fremfusende, opblåste, slike som elsker sine lyster høiere enn Gud,
Portuguesetraidores, atrevidos, orgulhosos, mais amigos dos deleites do que amigos de Deus,   
Rumanianvknzqtori, obraznici, kngkmfayi; iubitori mai mult de plqceri deckt iubitori de Dumnezeu;
Russian ТЕ"БФЕМЙ, ОБЗМЩ, ОБ ЩЭЕООЩ, 'ПМЕЕ УМБУФПМА'ЙЧЩ, ОЕЦЕМЙ 'ПЗПМА'ЙЧЩ,
ShuarAmikrincha surukartatui. Arantsuk tunaan Túrawartatui. Waantu Enentáimin ártatui. Yúsan nakitrar aya ni wakeramunak Enentáimtusartatui.
Spanishtraidores, impetuosos, envanecidos y amantes de los placeres más que de Dios.
Swahiliwatakuwa wahaini, wakaidi na waliojaa kiburi; watapenda anasa kuliko kumpenda Mungu.
Swedishförrädiska, besinningslösa, förblindade av högmod; de skola älska vällust mer än Gud, >Fil. 3,19.
Thaiเป็นคนทรยศ เป็นคนมุทะลุ เป็นคนหัวสูง เป็นคนรักความสนุกสนานยิ่งกว่ารักพระเจ้า
Ukrainianзрадники, нахабні, бундючні, що більше люблять розкоші, аніж люблять Бога,
UmaMpopanawu' doo-ra, mekahia' -ra pai' rika' pekiri-ra, mpopeliu kapantea-ra. Uma-ra mpotuku' konoa Alata'ala, mpotuku' kagoea' -ra-wadi.

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Misspellings: Heady

Misspellings

"Heady" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haddy, hadey, hadi, hady, Hadyn, Hajadi, haudy, Hayda, heacy, heade, Headey, headg, headie, heasy, heaty, heauy, heddy, hedy, heezy, heidi, heidie, Heidy, heldy, herdy, hoadie, hodey, hoidy, houdy, meady, sheady, Shehadi, Shehadie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Heady"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "heady" (pronounced he"dē)
3-e" d ēalready, Bready, Eddy, ready, steady, teddy, unsteady.

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Anagrams: Heady

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hayed.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-y"

-1 letter: hade, haed, head, yeah.

-2 letters: aye, dah, day, dey, dye, edh, had, hae, hay, hey, yah, yea, yeh.

-3 letters: ad, ae, ah, ay, de, ed, eh, ha, he, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-y"
 

+1 letter: deathy, heyday, hydrae.

 

+2 letters: deathly, hayride, hayseed, headily, headway, heydays, hydrase, hydrate, hydriae, thready, yachted.

 

+3 letters: aldehyde, endarchy, eyeshade, handymen, hawkeyed, hayfield, hayrides, hayseeds, headachy, headstay, headways, heatedly, heraldry, hexapody, hideaway, hoorayed, hurrayed, hydrases, hydrated, hydrates, hyoidean, sashayed, shamoyed.

 

+4 letters: aldehydes, aldehydic, anhydride, anhydrite, ashamedly, chandlery, chlamydes, dehydrate, diaphyses, diathermy, dyarchies, ethylated, eyeshades, hackneyed, hayfields, headstays, hendiadys, hideaways, holidayed, holidayer, hydathode, hydrangea, hydrazide, hydrazine, hydrolase, hyperacid, hyperarid, pachyderm, polyhedra, poppyhead, rehydrate, shadberry, tallyhoed.

 

+5 letters: adherently, adhesively, anhydrides, anhydrites, ballyhooed, bawdyhouse, bellyached, chalcedony, chlamydiae, daylighted, debauchery, dehydrated, dehydrates, dehydrator, demography, detachably, detachedly, diaphyseal, handsomely, hereditary, hexaploidy, holidayers, hydathodes, hydrangeas, hydrazides, hydrazines, hydrolases, hydrophane, hydroplane, hydrospace, hypermedia, hyphenated, hypodermal, ideography, ladyfishes, methylated, methyldopa, pachyderms, polyhedral, poppyheads, preholiday, rehydrated, rehydrates, sleepyhead.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Heady


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 65 61 64 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .    .-    -..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0061 0064 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4271677091

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Bible Trace
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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