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Hotheaded vs Agressive - What's the difference?

hotheaded | agressive |

As adjectives the difference between hotheaded and agressive

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

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

    agressive

    Not English

    Agressive has no English definition. It may be misspelled.