heady adj : extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic [syn: intoxicating] [also: headiest, headier]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛdi

Adjective

1. intoxicating or stupefying
   • The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits
2. tending to upset the mind or senses
   • We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock
3. exhilarating
   • The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits
4. intellectual
   • Keirkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.

Derived terms

• headily
• headiness

Heady is a surname, and may refer to:

• Brett Heady (born 1970), former Australian rules footballer
• Ray E. Heady (1916-2002), American clergyman

agitating, astute, barmy, breathtaking, cagey, charged, cliff-hanging, disobedient, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, exciting, exhilarating, foam-flecked, foamy, frothy, galvanic, headstrong, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, inebriant, inebriating, inebriative, inflammatory, insubordinate, intoxicating, intoxicative, irresponsible, jarring, jolting, lathery, lawless, licentious, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, mutinous, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perspicacious, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking, rampant, ravishing, reinless, sagacious, savvy, self-willed, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soapy, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, spumose, spumous, spumy, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suddy, sudsy, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungoverned, unreined, unrestrained, unsettling, upsetting, wildcat, willful, yeasty