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It describes someone who is easily angered or prone to rash decisions. Example: "His hotheaded nature often led to arguments with his colleagues." Alternatives include "impulsive" or "quick-tempered."
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hotheaded
adjective
Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.
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And robust scrutiny could give way to hotheaded revenge.
The award-winning run generated vast amounts of publicity, and readers embraced an older Oliver Queen passionate, belligerent, hotheaded, and radical.
Maurice (the Rocket) Richard, the first player ever to score fifty goals in an N.H.L. season, was a target of frequent ethnic taunts in the forties and fifties, and hotheaded as a result.
Trevelyan concedes that he could be hotheaded and rash and perhaps was not politically astute.
(c) "Illegitimate," "simian," "hotheaded," and "torture".
Except for an ineffectual priest and an imam, whose houses of worship sit side by side, those men are hotheaded bumpkins who profess brotherhood until the tiniest provocation incites them to blind fury.
The men are hotheaded screamers, the women are shallow and meddlesome, no one likes or listens to anyone else, but everyone eats together.
And while Clemens was hotheaded and widely suspected to be a steroids-fueled power pitcher, Dickey is the scrapheap knuckleballer, as reconstructed by David Shoenfield on ESPN.com, who was about one breath from considering a career as an English teacher before Buck Showalter, of all people, told him to learn a knuckleball.
He was hotheaded, they said, and had spent nine years in prison for theft.
While the anachronistic nature of Petruchio and Katherina's relationship still starts the proceedings on a disquieting note, there is delight in watching Petruchio, a pragmatic gold digger and hotheaded bully, gradually emerge as a man enraptured by his bride's intrinsic intelligence, her boundless spirit and her growing gift for compassion.
It starred Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright, the family patriarch (whom Mr. Dortort named after his own father), and, as his sons, Pernell Roberts as the eldest and the most intellectual, Adam Dan Blockerr as the sweet-tempered giant Eric, better known as Hoss; and Michael Landon as the impetuous, hotheaded Little Joe.
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