Word Meanings - COLD-BLOODED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them. 2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted. 3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from

Additional info about word: COLD-BLOODED

1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them. 2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted. 3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COLD-BLOODED)

• Phlegmatic
• Sluggish
• cold
• apathetical
• dull
• frigid
• cold-blooded
• unfeeling

Related words: (words related to COLD-BLOODED)

• PHLEGMATICALLY
  In a phlegmatic manner.
• PHLEGMATICLY
  Phlegmatically.
• APATHETICALLY
  In an apathetic manner.
• FRIGIDARIUM
  The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.
• PHLEGMATIC
  1. Watery. "Aqueous and phlegmatic." Sir I. Newton. 2. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey. 3. Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic habitations." Sir T. Browne. 4. Not easily excited to
• FRIGIDITY
  1. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne. 2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness
• FRIGIDNESS
  The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.
• PHLEGMATICAL
  Phlegmatic. Ash.
• SLUGGISH
  1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. 2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. 3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power
• FRIGIDLY
  In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.
• FRIGID
  1. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate. 2. Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style;
• UNFEELING
  1. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate. 2. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Gray. --
• COLD-BLOODED
  1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them. 2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted. 3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from
• INFRIGIDATE
  To chill; to make cold; to cool. Boyle.
• APOPHLEGMATIC
  Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n.
• APATHETIC; APATHETICAL
  Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
• INFRIGIDATION
  The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation. Boyle.
• LEUCOPHLEGMATIC
  Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.