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hot-blooded

[ hot-bluhd-id ]

adjective

  1. excitable; impetuous.
  2. ardent, passionate, or virile.
  3. adventuresome, exciting, or characterized by adventure and excitement.
  4. (of livestock) of superior or pure breeding.
  5. (of horses) being a Thoroughbred or having Arab blood.


hot-blooded

adjective

  1. passionate or excitable
  2. (of a horse) being of thoroughbred stock
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌhot-ˈbloodedness, noun
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Other Words From

  • hot-blooded·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hot-blooded1

First recorded in 1590–1600
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Example Sentences

Even usually hot-blooded madrassa students may be having second thoughts about joining the fight.

Before this hot-blooded sale, the closest anyone ever came was a $140-million purchase in 2006, and it was a Jackson Pollock.

The ex-speaker's hot-blooded defense of his messy personal life has clicked with angry GOP voters.

Then, like in many hot-blooded American dreams, Justin Timberlake appears asking Poehler to practice their "kissing scene."

He now views his initial reaction as a bit extreme: "Probably in retrospect, I was a little hot-blooded in my response."

From his earliest youth Pierre Franois, handsome and long-limbed, hot-blooded and vain, thirsted after adventure.

But the hot-blooded sailors rowed in among them and cut fiercely with their cutlasses, so that hardly any of them escaped.

I know he is a hot-blooded old reprobate—that father of yours.

In the second period the great leaders of popular migrations emerge, young, vigorous, hot-blooded.

It is convenient no doubt to ignore them in our hot-blooded carelessness, but the time will come when they must find us out.

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