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Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.
* 1816 , , The Antiquary—Volume II , ch. 1:
* 1919 , , The Desert of Wheat , ch. 18:
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A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective hotheaded
is pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hotheaded
English
Alternative forms
* hot-headedAdjective
(en adjective)- 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!
- "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.
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Synonyms
* fiery, hasty, hot-tempered, impetuous, rash, vehement, violentAntonyms
* calm, composed, level-headedDerived terms
* hotheadedly * hotheadednessnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.