blooded

[ bluhd-id ]

adjective

1. having blood of a specified kind (used in combination):

   warm-blooded animals.

2. (of horses, cattle, etc.) derived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree.

blooded

/ ˈblʌdɪd /

adjective

1. (of horses, cattle, etc) of good breeding
2. in combination having blood or temperament as specified

   hot-blooded, cold-blooded, warm-blooded, red-blooded, blue-blooded

Other Words From

• well-blooded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of blooded¹

Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; blood, -ed ³

Example Sentences

I’ve outlasted my most warm-blooded friends around the fire or stargazing, and as strict shelter-in-place orders resume in New Mexico, I’m eager to take it solo camping.

From Outside Online

Unlike lizards or fish, warm-blooded animals don’t fall apart as quickly in extreme heat.

From Popular-Science

Warm-blooded sharks also need more food than slower moving, colder-blooded ones.

From Science News For Students

The scientists who raced to investigate the fallen reptiles have now found that, despite such graceless falls, some of these tropical, cold-blooded creatures are actually more resilient to cold than previously thought.

From Science News

A bunch of people run around pretending they’re full-blooded Turks, when, in truth, most are mixed.

From Outside Online

But it lacked the one ingredient that has largely been absent from this World Cup: cold-blooded finishing in front of goal.

From The Daily Beast

“Show business” was much more a haven for sentimentalists then, not for ironists like Letterman or cold-blooded comics like Leno.

From The Daily Beast

Where Kate is mild-mannered and middle-class, Cressy, 24, is a wild, blue-blooded aristocrat with bohemian heritage.

From The Daily Beast

Because, of course, red-blooded, white-skinned folks like Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, and Adam Lanza pose no threat at all.

From The Daily Beast

The commenter said Dodson is not a full-blooded member of any tribe and is in fact one-quarter Aleut, not Inuit.

From The Daily Beast

It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.

From Project Gutenberg

How dare you decide in this cold-blooded way whether I am to be called—ah—Tosh—or—ah—Porker!

From Project Gutenberg

Our prisoner's was perhaps the most startling name which could have been pronounced among those high-blooded and headlong men.

From Project Gutenberg

If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.

From Project Gutenberg

The Kentucky planter prides himself on the superior quality of tobacco, as well as his famous blooded stock.

From Project Gutenberg