Synonyms for heady
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hed-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛd i |
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for heady
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