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If someone is hotheaded, they do things too quickly, often because they are angry or , and they do not stop to think. It describes the person or their actions (a hotheaded reply, a hotheaded driver). It is the adjective that sits beside the noun hothead. Informal, a little critical. It is not the same as brave, and not the same as lively. A calm plan made too fast is rash; a hotheaded one has heat in it — feeling pushing the person forward. Though actually, people sometimes call themselves hotheaded as a half-excuse, as if the temper is just how they are.
衝動的;急性子的
組成From hot + headed.
同家族的字
- hotheadthe noun for a person like this
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hotheadedadj
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Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.
- 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.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。