hotheaded
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Prone to acting with sudden, impulsive energy or anger; easily and quickly provoked to strong emotion or action: Describes a person or their behavior as being characterized by rashness, impatience, and a lack of careful consideration.
- Quick-tempered; irascible: Specifically refers to a tendency to become angry very rapidly.
Usage and Examples
- Adjective:
- The hotheaded driver honked his horn and yelled at the car in front of him. (This shows a quick, angry reaction.)
- Making a hotheaded decision without consulting the team led to significant problems. (This illustrates impulsive action without deliberation.)
- He is too hotheaded to negotiate calmly; he always loses his temper. (This describes a character trait of being easily angered.)
Advanced Usage and Nuances
- The term often implies a criticism of someone's lack of self-control or foresight. It suggests that actions are driven by immediate emotion rather than reason.
- It can describe both a temporary state (a hotheaded reaction) and a permanent character trait (a hotheaded person).
- "In a hotheaded manner": Acting with impulsive anger or rashness.
- He resigned in a hotheaded manner after the argument.
Variants and Related Words
- Hothead (noun): A person who is hotheaded.
- He was known as a hothead who couldn't control his temper.
- Hotheadedness (noun): The quality of being hotheaded.
- His hotheadedness was his greatest weakness.
Synonyms
- Impulsive: Acting or done without forethought.
- Rash: Acting or done without careful consideration of the possible consequences; impetuous.
- Impetuous: Acting or done quickly and without thought or care.
- Quick-tempered: Easily angered.
- Irascible: Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.
Antonyms
- Calm: Not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions.
- Deliberate: Done consciously and intentionally; careful and slow in acting or deciding.
- Level-headed: Sensible and balanced, especially in a crisis.
Idioms and Common Phrases
- While "hotheaded" itself is not typically part of a larger idiom, its meaning is central to expressions about losing one's temper or acting rashly, such as "flying off the handle" or "acting in the heat of the moment."
Adjective
- characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; (`brainish' is archaic)
- a hotheaded decision
- liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers
- an impetuous display of spending and gambling
- madcap escapades
- quickly aroused to anger
- a hotheaded commander