adj
Meaning 1
Having an unregulated body temperature; ectothermic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: warm-blooded
Standard Lemma guide
cold-blooded
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Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Lacking emotion or compunction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: emotionless, reptilian, reptitious, sangfroid, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, phlegmatic, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, dead inside, dispassionate, immovable, impassible, impassive, insensible, nonemotional, nonfeeling, nonpassionate, nonsentimental, stolid, unemotional, unfeeling, unmovable, unpassionate, unsentimental
Antonyms: warm-blooded
adj
Meaning 3
Of a type of horse: tall and muscular, usually good-natured and suitable for heavy work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: warm-blooded
adj
Meaning 4
Of an engine or vehicle: difficult to start; runs poorly until warmed up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: warm-blooded
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
without compunction or human feeling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- in cold blood
- cold-blooded killing
- insensate destruction
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cold, inhuman, insensate
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From cold blood + -ed.
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: халаднакро́ўны (xaladnakrówny) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Bulgarian: хладнокръ́вен (hladnokrǎ́ven) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Bulgarian: безчу́вствен (bezčúvstven) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Chinese Mandarin: 冷血 (lěngxuè) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Czech: chladnokrevný — lacking emotion or compunction
- Danish: koldblodig — lacking emotion or compunction
- Dutch: kil — lacking emotion or compunction
- Dutch: koudbloedig — lacking emotion or compunction
- Finnish: kylmäverinen — lacking emotion or compunction
- Finnish: tunteeton — lacking emotion or compunction
- French: impitoyable — lacking emotion or compunction
- Galician: de sangue frío — lacking emotion or compunction
- Georgian: ცივსისხლიანი (civsisxliani) — lacking emotion or compunction
- German: kaltblütig — lacking emotion or compunction
- Hungarian: hidegvérű — lacking emotion or compunction
- Hungarian: rideg — lacking emotion or compunction
- Indonesian: berdarah dingin — lacking emotion or compunction
- Irish: danartha — lacking emotion or compunction
- Japanese: 冷血な (reiketsu na) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Korean: 냉혹하다 (naenghokhada) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Korean: 랭혹하다 (raenghokhada) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Macedonian: ладнокрвен (ladnokrven) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Norwegian Bokmål: kaldblodig — lacking emotion or compunction
- Polish: bezwzględny — lacking emotion or compunction
- Polish: nieczuły — lacking emotion or compunction
- Polish: bezlitosny — lacking emotion or compunction
- Polish: zimnokrwisty — lacking emotion or compunction
- Portuguese: de sangue frio — lacking emotion or compunction
- Romanian: cu sânge rece — lacking emotion or compunction
- Russian: хладнокро́вный (xladnokróvnyj) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Russian: бесчу́вственный (besčúvstvennyj) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Serbo-Croatian: хла̏днокр̄ван — lacking emotion or compunction
- Serbo-Croatian: hlȁdnokr̄van — lacking emotion or compunction
- Slovak: chladnokrvný — lacking emotion or compunction
- Slovak: studenokrvný — lacking emotion or compunction
- Slovene: hladnokrven — lacking emotion or compunction
- Spanish: sin emoción — lacking emotion or compunction
- Swedish: kallblodig — lacking emotion or compunction
- Thai: เย็นชา (yen-chaa) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Thai: เลือดเย็น (lʉ̂ʉat-yen) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Turkish: soğukkanlı — lacking emotion or compunction
- Ukrainian: холоднокро́вний (xolodnokróvnyj) — lacking emotion or compunction
- Finnish: kylmäverinen — of a type of horse: tall and muscular
- Thai: ม้าเลือดเย็น (máa-lʉ̂ʉat-yen) — of a type of horse: tall and muscular