heady
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English hedi, hevedi, equivalent to head + -y.
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛdi
Adjective [edit]
heady (comparative headier, superlative headiest)
- intoxicating or stupefying
- The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
- tending to upset the mind or senses
- We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
- exhilarating
- The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
- intellectual
- Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
- rash or impetuous
- He made too heady promises, and when it came time, he was never able to fulfill them.
