hot-blooded
Adjective: 1. Easily excited or passionate; prone to strong emotions, especially anger, love, or enthusiasm. This describes a person or creature with a fiery, impulsive, and intense temperament. 2. Characterized by or involving intense feeling or spirited action.
The adjective "hot-blooded" is used to describe a person's nature or behavior. It is typically placed before a noun (e.g., a hot-blooded youth) or after a linking verb like "be" or "seem" (e.g., He is very hot-blooded). It often carries a connotation of being quick-tempered, passionate, or romantic.
- He was a hot-blooded young man, always ready for an argument or a fight.
- The novel features a hot-blooded romance between the two main characters.
- She is too hot-blooded to remain calm during such a heated debate.
- The stallion was hot-blooded and difficult to control.
- The term can be used in a comparative or superlative form: "more hot-blooded," "the most hot-blooded."
- It can describe abstract concepts like a "hot-blooded response" or "hot-blooded loyalty," implying actions or feelings driven by intense emotion rather than cold logic.
- Hot-bloodedness (noun): The quality or state of being hot-blooded.
- His hot-bloodedness often got him into trouble.
The core meaning relates to temperament. It does not refer to physical body temperature, though it uses temperature metaphorically ("hot") to describe emotional intensity.
- Passionate
- Fiery
- Impetuous
- Excitable
- Temperamental
- Spirited
- Cold-blooded
- Dispassionate
- Calm
- Composed
- Unemotional
- Hot under the collar: This idiom is related, meaning angry or agitated, which is a state a hot-blooded person might frequently experience.
- The unfair criticism made him hot under the collar.
- prone to emotion
- hot-blooded Latin-Americans
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