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heady en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈhɛdi/

Etymology

From Middle English hedi, hevedi, equivalent to head + -y.

Meanings

  1. Intoxicating or stupefying.
    • Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love / Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love 1950, James Shelton, “Lilac Wine”:
    • The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
  2. Tending to upset the mind or senses.
    • We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
  3. Exhilarating or exciting; producing a feeling of high energy or confidence
    • The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
  4. (broadly, qualifier:typically of economic or industrial trends) Exhilarating or exciting; producing a feeling of high energy or confidence: ▸ rapid, substantial, or breakneck in growth.
    • This follows some heady gains in hourly wages for retail workers.
    • Home sales remained steady, although running slightly below the previous month's heady pace.
    • The heady pace of manufacturing stands in contrast to some of the recent news on how consumers are faring.
  5. Intellectual.
    • Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
  6. Rash or impetuous.
    • He made such heady promises that when the time came, he was never able to fulfill them.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
headier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
headiest Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

heady days · headily · headiness · overheady · unheady

Translations (20)

de ungestüm (rash or impetuous) · pl mocny (intoxicating or stupefying) · ru поспешный (rash or impetuous) · sh plahovit (rash or impetuous) · cs omamný (intoxicating or stupefying) · de berauschend (intoxicating or stupefying) · sh opojan (intoxicating or stupefying) · cs opojný (intoxicating or stupefying) · bg опияняващ (intoxicating or stupefying) · bg стремителен (rash or impetuous) · sh stremeći (rash or impetuous) · ru дурманящий (intoxicating or stupefying) · pl gwałtowny (rash or impetuous) · bg неудържим (rash or impetuous) · de verkopft (intellectual) · fi vaikeatajuinen (intellectual) · pl bystry (intellectual) · pl odurzający (intoxicating or stupefying) · ru опьяняющий (intoxicating or stupefying) · bg упоителен (intoxicating or stupefying)