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1
experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
- still heady from his election win, he announced his first cabinet appointments
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- ecstatic,
- elated,
- elevated,
- enrapt,
- enraptured,
- entranced,
- euphoric,
- exhilarated,
- giddy,
- intoxicated,
- rapt,
- rapturous,
- rhapsodic
- (also rhapsodical)
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- blue,
- brokenhearted,
- crestfallen,
- dejected,
- despondent,
- disconsolate,
- disheartened,
- doleful,
- down,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- forlorn,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- hangdog,
- heartbroken,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- inconsolable,
- joyless,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- mournful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
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2
having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment
- one of the headiest politicians around, he knows how to read the public mood at any given moment
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- exploitable,
- gullible
- (also gullable)
- airheaded,
- birdbrained,
- brain-dead,
- brainless,
- dim-witted,
- dopey
- (also dopy),
- dumb,
- empty-headed,
- feebleminded,
- gormless
- [chiefly British],
- half-witted,
- knuckleheaded,
- lamebrain
- (or lamebrained),
- lunkheaded,
- simple,
- slow,
- slow-witted,
- softheaded,
- stupid,
- thickheaded,
- thick-witted,
- unintelligent,
- weak-minded
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3
having an abundance of some characteristic quality (as flavor)
- a rich meal full of heady sauces and strong spices
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“Heady.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heady. Accessed 17 Oct. 2021.
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