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Learn the various meanings and uses of the adjective cold-blooded, such as lacking human feelings, having a body temperature not regulated by the body, or sensitive to cold. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries.
Cold-blooded is an informal term for one or more of a group of characteristics that determine an animal's thermophysiology. These include: Ectothermy, controlling body temperature through external processes, such as by basking in the sun.
Learn the meaning of cold-blooded as an adjective for animals and people who lack sympathy or cruelty. See synonyms, antonyms, and usage examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Learn the meaning of cold-blooded as an adjective for animals and people. Find out how to use it in sentences and compare it with warm-blooded and other synonyms.
A cold-blooded animal has a body temperature that varies along with the outdoor temperature, and a cold-blooded person is someone who seems to feel no emotions. Your pet lizard may love you, but she's still cold-blooded.
Cold-blooded definition: designating or pertaining to animals, as fishes and reptiles, whose blood temperature ranges from the freezing point upward, in accordance with the temperature of the surrounding medium; poikilothermic.. See examples of COLD-BLOODED used in a sentence.
COLD–BLOODED meaning: 1 : showing no sympathy or mercy done in a planned way without emotion; 2 : based on facts not affected by emotions.
