cold-blooded Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite without compunction or human feeling
cold; inhuman; insensate.
- in cold blood
- cold-blooded killing
- insensate destruction
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adjective having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)
WordNet
Cold"-blood`ed adjective
Definitions
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Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them. -
Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted. -
Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.
