Meaning of COLD-BLOODED
| Pronunciation: | | k`owldbl'udud, kowld 'bludid
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- [adj] without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
- [adj] (zoology) having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)
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| | Synonyms: | | cold, heterothermic, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, poikilothermic, poikilothermous |
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| | Antonyms: | | warm-blooded | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cold"-blood`ed\, a.
1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood
is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are
derived from the common stock of a country.
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| | Related Terms: | | affectless, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, autistic, barbaric, barbarous, blunt, brutal, callous, calloused, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, cool, cruel, cryogenic, cryological, dispassionate, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, flinthearted, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, hard, hard of heart, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, heterothermic, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, inexcitable, inhuman, insensitive, insusceptible, merciless, nonemotional, obdurate, objective, obtuse, out of touch, passionless, pitiless, poikilothermic, ruthless, savage, self-absorbed, soulless, spiritless, steely, stony, stonyhearted, thick-skinned, unaffectionate, uncaring, unemotional, unexcited, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unmerciful, unmoved, unnatural, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, vicious |
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