cold-blooded

Speech parts

1. cold-blooded - Adjective

2. cold-blooded - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.

Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

cold blooded

Synonyms

cold inhuman insensate savage stony remorseless hard cool harsh calculating glacial brutal cruel indifferent ruthless
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Antonyms

warm-blooded mad humane blazing beery kind
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Examples

in cold blood Source: Internet

cold-blooded killing Source: Internet

insensate destruction Source: Internet

Alternatively called "torpedo scads ", they are cold-blooded with white flesh. Source: Internet

Amphibians are ectothermic (cold-blooded) vertebrates that do not maintain their body temperature through internal physiological processes. Source: Internet

As a result, several of the novelizations have entire scenes and in one case an ending that differed from the original episodes, as the cold-blooded killer of Caidin's novels handled things somewhat differently from his non-killing TV counterpart. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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