Emotions
Synonyms for hotheaded
The synonym for hotheaded recorded in this bank is irascible, in the sense "quickly aroused to anger". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for hotheaded
- irascibleadjective, in the sense "quickly aroused to anger"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day hotheaded is audited in a second meaning.
quickly aroused to anger
The hotheaded sergeant shouted at anyone who crossed him.
The true synonym
irascible
Same sentence, swapped: The irascible sergeant shouted at anyone who crossed him.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- madcap
- precipitate
- tempestuous
Where hotheaded turns up in the game
hotheaded is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play hotheaded
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hotheaded reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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