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hot-blooded

[ hot-bluhd-id ]

/ ˈhɒtˈblʌd ɪd /

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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.

Origin of hot-blooded

First recorded in 1590–1600

OTHER WORDS FROM hot-blooded

hot-blood·ed·ness, noun

Words nearby hot-blooded

hot water, hot well, hot yoga, hot zone, hot-air balloon, hot-blooded, hot-bulb engine, hot-button, hot-cathode tube, hot-comb, hot-desking

Example sentences from the Web for hot-blooded

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

David Choe, Facebook’s Millionaire Graffiti Artist |Jimmy So |February 3, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
The ex-speaker's hot-blooded defense of his messy personal life has clicked with angry GOP voters.

Impetuous Record Aids Newt Gingrich With Angry GOP Voters |Michael Medved |January 23, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
To be sure, the clever, hot-blooded little woman had held herself aloof from the crew's jaunts.

The Song of Songs |Hermann Sudermann
In all this malevolence he found an earnest colleague in the hot-blooded Izard, whose charges against Franklin were unmeasured.

Benjamin Franklin |John Torrey Morse, Jr.

Its representatives lived in hot-blooded times, and were compelled to skulk in still water with their emblematic daces.

Kenelm Chillingly, Complete |Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I trifled with one of your students, a reckless and hot-blooded man, and inspired him with a tyrannous passion.

Tales of the Chesapeake |George Alfred Townsend
Here he was primitive man unchained—a Rodin figure with muscles knotted in a riot of hot-blooded passion.

Swirling Waters |Max Rittenberg

British Dictionary definitions for hot-blooded

hot-blooded

adjective

passionate or excitable

(of a horse) being of thoroughbred stock

Derived forms of hot-blooded

hot-bloodedness, noun