Cold-blooded

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cold-blooded \Cold"-blood`ed\, a.
     1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood
        is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
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     2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.


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     3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are
        derived from the common stock of a country.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cold-blooded
       adj 1: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood";
              "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn:
              {cold}, {inhuman}, {insensate}]
       2: having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not
          internally regulated) [ant: {warm-blooded}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "cold-blooded":
     apathetic, barbaric, barbarous, brutal, callous, cool, cruel,
     dispassionate, heartless, imperturbable, indifferent, inhuman,
     insensitive, merciless, pitiless, poikilothermic, ruthless, savage,
     steely, stony, thick-skinned, uncaring, unemotional, unexcited,
     unfeeling, unimpassioned, unmoved, unresponsive, unsympathetic,
     vicious