hotheaded

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: hot=head=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

hotheaded, adj. 

•  same as hot-headed.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  liable to act with undue haste and without consideration.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hotheaded, adj. impetuous, excitable.

Derivative

hotheadedly adv. hotheadedness n.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

hotheaded

Haste

N haste, urgency, despatch, dispatch, acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash, speed, velocity, precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness, impetuosity, brusquerie, hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter, hasty, hurried, brusque, scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded, feverish, fussy, pushing, in haste, in a hurry, in hot haste, in all haste, breathless, pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent, with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed, in haste, apace, amain, all at once, at short notice, immediately, posthaste, by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches, hastily, precipitately, helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-bolus, slapdash, slap-bang, full-tilt, full drive, heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu, by fits and starts, by spurts, hop skip and jump, sauve qui peut, every man for himself, devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost, no sooner said than done, a word and a blow, haste makes waste, maggiore fretta minore atto, ohne Hast aber ohne Rast stand not upon the order, swift, swift, you dragons of the night.

Rashness

N rashness, temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion, overconfidence, presumption, audacity, precipitancy, precipitation, impetuosity, levity, foolhardihood, foolhardiness, heedlessness, thoughtlessness, carelessness, desperation, Quixotism, knight-errantry, fire eating, gaming, gambling, blind bargain, leap in the dark, leap of faith, fool's paradise, too many eggs in one basket, desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu, Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus, adventurer, gambler, gamester, dynamitard, boomer, rash, incautious, indiscreet, imprudent, improvident, temerarious, uncalculating, heedless, careless, without ballast, heels over head, head over heels, giddy, wanton, reckless, wild, madcap, desperate, devil-may-care, hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained, headlong, headstrong, breakneck, foolhardy, harebrained, precipitate, impulsive, overconfident, overweening, venturesome, venturous, adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier, janty, jaunty, free and easy, off one's guard, post haste, a corps perdu, hand over head, tete baissee, headforemost, happen what may, come what may, neck or nothing, the devil being in one, non semper temeritas est felix, paucis temeritas est bono multis malo.