heady

heady
    adj 1: marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense
           in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a
           wise decision" [syn: {judicious}, {wise}, {heady}]
    2: extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic [syn:
       {heady}, {intoxicating}]
    3: marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences;
       "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker";
       "became the fiercest and most reckless of
       partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to
       climb Mount Everest" [syn: {foolhardy}, {heady}, {rash},
       {reckless}]
    

Heady \Head"y\ (h[e^]d"[y^]), a. [From {Head}.]
   1. Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion;
      ungovernable.
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            All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady,
            -- to be violent on one side or the other. --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.
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   2. Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
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            The liquor is too heady.              --Dryden.
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   3. Violent; impetuous. "A heady currance." --Shak.
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91 Moby Thesaurus words for "heady":
      agitating, astute, barmy, breathtaking, cagey, charged,
      cliff-hanging, disobedient, disquieting, distracting, disturbing,
      electric, exciting, exhilarating, foam-flecked, foamy, frothy,
      galvanic, headstrong, heart-expanding, heart-stirring,
      heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, inebriant,
      inebriating, inebriative, inflammatory, insubordinate,
      intoxicating, intoxicative, irresponsible, jarring, jolting,
      lathery, lawless, licentious, maddening, mind-blowing, moving,
      mutinous, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming,
      perspicacious, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking,
      rampant, ravishing, reinless, sagacious, savvy, self-willed,
      soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soapy, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring,
      spumose, spumous, spumy, stimulating, stimulative, stirring,
      striking, suddy, sudsy, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing,
      telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, unaccountable, unbridled,
      unchecked, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungoverned,
      unreined, unrestrained, unsettling, upsetting, wildcat, willful,
      yeasty