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Angry vs Hotheaded - What's the difference?

angry | hotheaded |

As adjectives the difference between angry and hotheaded

is that angry is displaying or feeling anger while hotheaded is pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.

angry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Displaying or feeling anger.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
    • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
  • Dark and stormy, menacing.
    • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
  • * {{quote-book, 1756, (Christopher Smart), 3= The Book of the Epodes, chapter=Ode II, by=(Horace)
    • , passage=

    Synonyms

    * (displaying anger) mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up * See also

    Derived terms

    * angrily * angriness * Angry Young Man

    See also

    * (Anger)

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    hotheaded

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hot-headed

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.
  • * 1816 , , The Antiquary—Volume II , ch. 1:
    • Such an opportunity can hardly again occur to an ancient and grey-haired man; and to see it lost by the madcap spleen of a hot-headed boy!
  • * 1919 , , The Desert of Wheat , ch. 18:
    • "But I am!" flashed the young man, as if he had been misunderstood.
    "Listen. You're like all boys—hot-headed an' hasty. Let me talk a little," resumed Anderson.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 26 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}

    Synonyms

    * fiery, hasty, hot-tempered, impetuous, rash, vehement, violent

    Antonyms

    * calm, composed, level-headed

    Derived terms

    * hotheadedly * hotheadedness