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cold-blooded

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cold-blood·ed (kldbldd)
adj.
1.
a. Lacking feeling or emotion: a cold-blooded killer.
b. Executed without feeling or emotion: a cold-blooded crime; a cold-blooded performance of the concerto.
2. Ectothermic.
cold-blooded·ly adv.
cold-blooded·ness n.
cold-blooded
Adjective
1. callous or cruel
2. Zool (of all animals except birds and mammals) having a body temperature that varies according to the temperature of the surroundings
cold-blooded  (kldbldd)
Having a body temperature that changes according to the temperature of the surroundings. Fish, amphibians, and reptiles are cold-blooded.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.cold-blooded - without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
inhuman, insensate, cold
inhumane - lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used"
2.cold-blooded - having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)
zoological science, zoology - the branch of biology that studies animals
warm-blooded - having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated)
cold-blooded
adjective callous, cruel, savage, brutal, ruthless, steely, heartless, inhuman, merciless, unmoved, dispassionate, barbarous, pitiless, unfeeling, unemotional, stony-hearted << OPPOSITE caring
Translations
cold-blooded [ˈkəuldˈblʌdɪd] adj (ZOOL) → de sangre fría
cold-blooded [ˈkəuldˈblʌdɪd] adj (Zool) → à sang froid
cold-blooded [ˈkəuldˈblʌdɪd] cold adj → kaltblütig
cold-blooded [kəuldˈblʌdɪd] adj (ZOOL) → a sangue freddo


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Chil is good friends with everybody, but he is a cold-blooded kind of creature at heart, because he knows that almost everybody in the Jungle comes to him in the long-run.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
But what turns my head and makes my gorge rise, is the cold-blooded, conscious, deliberate cruelty and torment that is manifest behind ninety-nine of every hundred trained-animal turns.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
True, other fish are found exceedingly brisk in those Hyperborean waters; but these, be it observed, are your cold-blooded, lungless fish, whose very bellies are refrigerators; creatures, that warm themselves under the lee of an iceberg, as a traveller in winter would bask before an inn fire; whereas, like man, the whale has lungs and warm blood.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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