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hot-blooded
[ hot-bluhd-id ]
adjective
- excitable; impetuous.
- ardent, passionate, or virile.
- adventuresome, exciting, or characterized by adventure and excitement.
- (of livestock) of superior or pure breeding.
- (of horses) being a Thoroughbred or having Arab blood.
hot-blooded
adjective
- passionate or excitable
- (of a horse) being of thoroughbred stock
Derived Forms
- ˌhot-ˈbloodedness, noun
Other Words From
- hot-blooded·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of hot-blooded1
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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