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Heady vs Leady - What's the difference?

heady | leady |

As adjectives the difference between heady and leady

is that heady is intoxicating or stupefying while leady is resembling lead (the metal).

heady

English

Adjective

(er)
  • intoxicating or stupefying
  • * The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
  • tending to upset the mind or senses
  • * We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
  • exhilarating
  • * The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
  • intellectual
  • * Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
  • rash or impetuous
  • * He made too heady promises, and when it came time, he was never able to fulfill them.

    • Derived terms

    * headily * headiness

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    leady

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling lead (the metal).
    • (Webster 1913)