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Heedy vs Heady - What's the difference?

heedy | heady |

As adjectives the difference between heedy and heady

is that heedy is heedful; attentive while heady is intoxicating or stupefying.

heedy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Heedful; attentive.
  • *, vol.1, ch.23:
  • *:A heedy Reader shall often discover in other mens compositions, perfections farre differing from the Authors meaning, and such as haply he never dreamed of, and illustrateth them with richer senses and more excellent constructions.

    • Derived terms

    * heedily * heediness

    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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