heady

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   strongly intoxicating or affecting the senses, as a drink or scent does

   The room was filled with the heady perfume of jasmine.

2. 2
   adj

   exciting, exhilarating, or liable to produce overconfidence

   The first days of victory were a heady mixture of relief and ambition.

3. 3
   adj

   impetuous, reckless, or willful

   Jekyll felt a heady recklessness as his new personality took control.

From Middle English hedi, formed from head + -y. Earlier senses included headstrong or impetuous; the modern intoxicating sense describes something that goes to the head, while the exhilarating sense extends that bodily effect to emotion and success.

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