Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Violent; rash; precipitate; hot-headed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous.
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- adjective
impetuous andrash ;hot-headed
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Examples
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“Why, thou foolish and hot-brained churl,” replied the
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It bulldozed the villages and in a hot-brained hurry effectively threw up a brand-new city, called Pudong (“East of the Pu”).
The Rise of Big Water Mann, Charles C. 2007
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There was in the society of the Austins, outward, stoical conformers to the world, something gravely suggestive of essential eccentricity, something unpretentiously breathing of intellectual effort, that could not fail to hit the fancy of this hot-brained boy.
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Hugh Robsart destined his pretty Amy; and hither the hot-brained fool has come to look after his fair runaway.
Kenilworth 2004
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But he, like a very hot-brained man, although he had long been married to the daughter of his cousin (whom he liked none the more for that), would have nothing to say to any attempt at making
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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The Duke of Lithuania is no hot-brained youth to be entangled and destroyed by a woman's smiles.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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Coadjutor of Paris should be so much as suspected of being concerned in a sedition raised by a hot-brained fool, at the head of fifteen of the vilest of the mob?
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All France was put in motion thereby, and thousands of hot-brained youth resorted to the capital to join the already overwhelming rabble there.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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Gambling was a great attraction; but my brother, dreading its consequences with these hot-brained armed men, allowed none to take place in his hotel.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole
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Patch had obtained some celebrity in freaks of this description, though his feats be not recorded, like the hot-brained patriotism of Marcus Curtius in olden history.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. Various
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