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blooded
/ ˈblʌdɪd /
adjective
- (of horses, cattle, etc) of good breeding
- in combination having blood or temperament as specified
hot-blooded, cold-blooded, warm-blooded, red-blooded, blue-blooded
Other Words From
- well-blooded adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
I’ve outlasted my most warm-blooded friends around the fire or stargazing, and as strict shelter-in-place orders resume in New Mexico, I’m eager to take it solo camping.
Unlike lizards or fish, warm-blooded animals don’t fall apart as quickly in extreme heat.
Warm-blooded sharks also need more food than slower moving, colder-blooded ones.
The scientists who raced to investigate the fallen reptiles have now found that, despite such graceless falls, some of these tropical, cold-blooded creatures are actually more resilient to cold than previously thought.
A bunch of people run around pretending they’re full-blooded Turks, when, in truth, most are mixed.
But it lacked the one ingredient that has largely been absent from this World Cup: cold-blooded finishing in front of goal.
“Show business” was much more a haven for sentimentalists then, not for ironists like Letterman or cold-blooded comics like Leno.
Where Kate is mild-mannered and middle-class, Cressy, 24, is a wild, blue-blooded aristocrat with bohemian heritage.
Because, of course, red-blooded, white-skinned folks like Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, and Adam Lanza pose no threat at all.
The commenter said Dodson is not a full-blooded member of any tribe and is in fact one-quarter Aleut, not Inuit.
It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.
How dare you decide in this cold-blooded way whether I am to be called—ah—Tosh—or—ah—Porker!
Our prisoner's was perhaps the most startling name which could have been pronounced among those high-blooded and headlong men.
If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.
The Kentucky planter prides himself on the superior quality of tobacco, as well as his famous blooded stock.
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