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How to pronounce heady in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms intoxicating
Type Words
Synonyms foolhardy, rash, reckless
Derivation head
Type Words
Synonyms judicious, wise

Examples of heady

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Such return assumptions partly reflect the heady years of the 1990s bull market.
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It's a heady mix of black, pink and white peppercorns, white moss and patchouli.
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What political party wouldn't like some of that heady aura in the polling booth?
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What's the real value of investing in Facebook at a heady $30 billion valuation?
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It's a delicate proposition-counterintuitive, presumptuous, heady, unreasonable.
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It still hits on the heady subject matter tackled on its platinum-selling debut.
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Besides being the right thing to do, it just might be a heady business decision.
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For a kid born in Solnechni in Russia's isolated Far East, that's a heady world.
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It was a heady bunch to belong to, but Kuniyoshi's paintings were to be his own.
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  • Judicious: marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a wise decision"
  • Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic
  • Foolhardy: 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"
  • Heady is a surname, and may refer to: * Brett Heady (born 1970), former Australian rules footballer * Ray E. Heady (1916-2002), American clergyman
  • The Golovans (Russian: u0433u043Eu043Bu043Eu0432u0430u043Du044B, lit. "Headies") are a fictional alien race from the Noon Universe created by the Strugatsky brothers. Their homeworld is called Saraksh, allegedly discovered by A.-I. Bader in 2148 AD. The first contact between Golovans and a human was registered in 2157 (initiated by Maxim Kammerer) although officially it happened three years later in 2160 (see Lev Abalkin).
  • Intoxicating or stupefying; tending to upset the mind or senses; exhilarating; intellectual; rash or impetuous
  • (headies) Extremely high-grade, expensive marijuana
  • (headily) In a heady manner
  • (headiness) The characteristic of being heady