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heady - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

heady (comparative headier, superlative headiest)

• Intoxicating or stupefying.
  • ✤ The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
  • ✤ Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love/Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love¹
• Tending to upset the mind or senses.
  • ✤ We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
• Exhilarating or exciting; producing a feeling of high energy or confidence:
  • ✤ The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
  • (by extension, typically of economic or industrial trends) rapid, substantial, or breakneck in growth.
    • ✤ The heady pace of manufacturing stands in contrast to some of the recent news on how consumers are faring.
    • ✤ This follows some heady gains in hourly wages for retail workers.
    • ✤ Home sales remained steady, although running slightly below the previous month’s heady pace.
• Intellectual.
  • ✤ Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
• Rash or impetuous.
  • ✤ He made such heady promises that when the time came, he was never able to fulfill them.

Etymology

From Middle English hedi, hevedi, equivalent to head +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhɛdi/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Rhymes: -ɛdi

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1950, James Shelton, “Lilac Wine”: ↩

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