heady
/ˈhɛdi/
heady adjective: intoxicating or stupefying.
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 love1950, James Shelton, “Lilac Wine”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Heady
Heady (plural Headys)
- A surname.
heady meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
heady in Urdu
- عاقبت نا اندیش, بےدھڑک, جلد باز, پرتشدد, سرکش, تاؤ میں
heady in Malayalam
- intoxicating, potent, strong
- മയക്കമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, മാദകമായ, ലഹരിപിടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, മദനീയ, മദിര, മദയിത്നു
- exhilarating, exciting, thrilling
- ഉദ്ദീപക, മത്തുപിടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, ആനന്ദകരമായ, ആഹ്ലാദദായകം, ഉന്മേഷപ്രദം, ആവേശകരം
heady in Kannada
- ಅಮಲೇರಿಸುವ, ಮತ್ತು ಬರಿಸುವ, ರಭಸದ, ಉದ್ರೇಕದ, ದುಡುಕಿನ, ಸೊಕ್ಕು ಬರಿಸುವ
Examples of heady in a sentence
- The roses give forth a very heady scent at this time of the year.
- In the heady days of their youth, they thought anything was possible.
- Nobody had made profits of this size since the heady days of the stock-market boom.
Forms of heady
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | headier |
| superlative | headiest |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Headys |
Origin of heady
From Middle English hedi, hevedi, equivalent to head + -y.
Words formed from heady
Words that rhyme with heady
Questions about heady
- What does heady mean?
- Heady means intoxicating or stupefying.
- What is heady in Urdu?
- Heady in Urdu is عاقبت نا اندیش, بےدھڑک, جلد باز. See Heady meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is heady?
- Heady can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce heady?
- Heady is pronounced /ˈhɛdi/.
Words near heady in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heady (page history and authors); Heady (page history and authors); heady (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heady (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); heady (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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