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Hotheaded

Definitions: Hotheaded

Hotheaded

Adjective

1. Quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander".

2. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Hotheaded

Synonyms: brainish (adj), choleric (adj), hot-tempered (adj), impetuous (adj), impulsive (adj), irascible (adj), madcap (adj), quick-tempered (adj), short (adj), short-tempered (adj), tearaway(a) (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hotheaded

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

Haste

Adjective: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.

Rashness

Hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive. overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty, jaunty, free and easy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hotheaded

English words defined with "hotheaded": brainishcholerichot-temperedimpetuous, impulsive, irasciblemadcapquick-temperedshort, short-temperedtearaway. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Hotheaded

"Hotheaded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hotheaded" is used about 4 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%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hotheaded

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

Bulgarian 

  

сприхав (breezy, combustible, hasty, high-spirited, hoity toity, hot tempered, irascible, irritable, peppery, petulant, quick tempered, short tempered, snappish, snappy, spicy, testy, violent, waxy), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi). (various references)

   

Czech

  

prchlivý (choleric, excitable, fiery, hasty, irascible). (various references)

   

French

  

impétueux (hothead). (various references)

   

German

  

hitzköpfig (hot headed, hot-headed). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pemberang (bad-tempered, hothead). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

一国 (stubborn, whole country). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いっ"く (a minute, a moment, an instant, hot-headed, one koku, stubborn, whole country). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otheadedhay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

usijane glave (hot-brained, hot-headed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fanático (addict, addicted, bigot, bigoted, fanatic, fanatical, fiend, hot-brained, hothead, rabid, zealot), extremista (extremist, hothead, zealot), excitable (excitable, high strung, highly strung, nervy, temperamental, uncool), exaltado (ebullient, elated, emotional, exalted, excitable, extreme, far out, hothead, impassioned, intense, light-headed, mad person, overexcited, worked up), de cabeza caliente. (various references)

   

Thai

  

โมโหง่าย (hot-tempered, quick-tempered). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

гарячий (ardent, broiling, earnest, fervent, hot, hot tempered, hot-brained, impetuous, mettled, mettlesome, ornery, scalding, torrid, warm), нерозважливий (ill-advised), запальний (choleric, explosive, fiery, gingery, hard-nosed, hasty, heated, hot, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, inflammable, inflammatory, ireful, ornery, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, spunky, testy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Hotheaded

Derivations

Words beginning with "hotheaded": hotheadedly, hotheadedness, hotheadednesses. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Hotheaded

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-h-h-o-t"

-2 letters: hothead.

-3 letters: doated, headed, heated.

-4 letters: dated, death, doeth, doted, haded, hated, heath, hodad.

-5 letters: dado, date, dato, dead, deed, deet, doat, dote, doth, eath, eddo, hade, haed, haet, hate, hath, head, heat, heed, heth, hoed, oath, odea, ohed, teed, thae, thee, toad, toea, toed.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-h-h-o-t"
 

+2 letters: hotheadedly.

 

+4 letters: hotheadedness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hotheaded


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

48 6F 74 68 65 61 64 65 64

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

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

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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

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

01001000 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 0074 0068 0065 0061 0064 0065 0064

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

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

428186747167707170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, ‏فرنسي, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French;
Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏المانية, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German;
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Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish;
Tailandes, 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰国, 泰 , thailænder, Thailander, Thai, Thais, thailendskt, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 泰語 , たい", 타이 말, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, คนไทย, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tayland, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський, for Thai;
乌克兰, for Ukranian;