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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hot-headed \Hot"-head`ed\, a.
     quickly and easily aroused to anger; fiery; violent; rash;
     hasty; impetuous; vehement; as, a hot-headed commander.
     [WordNet sense 1] --Macaulay.
  
     Syn: choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered,


          quick-tempered, short-tempered.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hotheaded \hotheaded\ adj.
     1. same as {hot-headed}.
  
     Syn: choleric, irascible, hot-headed, hot-tempered,
          quick-tempered, short-tempered.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. liable to act with undue haste and without consideration.
  
     Syn: brainish, impulsive, impetuous, madcap,
          tearaway(prenominal).
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hotheaded
       adj 1: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {choleric},
               {irascible}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-tempered}, {short},
               {short-tempered}]
       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) [syn: {impulsive}, {impetuous}, {madcap},
           {tearaway(a)}, {brainish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "hotheaded":
     accident-prone, ardent, brash, breakneck, careless, combustible,
     daredevil, desperate, devil-may-care, explosive, fanatic, fierce,
     fiery, flaming, foolhardy, furious, hard-core, harum-scarum, hasty,
     headlong, heated, heedless, hot, hot-tempered, hurried,
     ill-advised, impetuous, incautious, inconsiderate, inflamed, mad,
     madcap, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, passionate,
     peppery, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick,
     quick-tempered, rash, reckless, red-hot, scorching, short-tempered,
     simmering, slap-bang, slapdash, spunky, stormy, tempestuous,
     thoughtless, tornadic, totally committed, vehement, violent,
     volatile, volcanic, wanton, white-hot, wild, zealous
  
  

















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