Antonyms for heady

Grammar : Adj

Spell : hed-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛd i

Definition of heady

Origin : late 14c., "headstrong, hasty, impetuous," from head (n.) + adj. suffix -y (2). First recorded 1570s in sense of "apt to go to the head."

adj thrilling, intoxicating

Example sentences :

It was heady, this island of the south—heady in the summer-time.
Extract from : « The Call of the Blood » by Robert Smythe Hichens

You can get up two bottles of our Lunel—at two francs—the heady kind.
Extract from : « Germinie Lacerteux » by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

Maybe the ozone and the other additives in your shelter air are too heady for me.
Extract from : « The Creature from Cleveland Depths » by Fritz Reuter Leiber

She started, looked at him thoughtfully, and smiled a heady smile.
Extract from : « The Goose Man » by Jacob Wassermann

The odour of the burning leaves was heady, a superdistillate of memories.
Extract from : « Stubble » by George Looms

It was a sad farrago of enthusiasm and levity and heady writing.
Extract from : « At Large » by Arthur Christopher Benson

In towns and corporations they are heady and turbulent to have their wills.
Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) » by Richard Baxter

"'Tis the gift of youth to be rash and heady," the trapper calmly retorted.
Extract from : « The Prairie » by J. Fenimore Cooper

Here, if anywhere, might she forget the heady joys of the cinema.
Extract from : « The Man Upstairs » by P. G. Wodehouse

It was like heady wine to him to think of her with him always, in spirit if not in body.
Extract from : « The Graftons » by Archibald Marshall

Synonyms for heady

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