hot-blooded

[ hot-bluhd-id ]

adjective

1. excitable; impetuous.
2. ardent, passionate, or virile.
3. adventuresome, exciting, or characterized by adventure and excitement.
4. (of livestock) of superior or pure breeding.
5. (of horses) being a Thoroughbred or having Arab blood.

hot-blooded

adjective

1. passionate or excitable
2. (of a horse) being of thoroughbred stock

Derived Forms

• ˌhot-ˈbloodedness, noun

Other Words From

• hot-blooded·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of hot-blooded¹

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

High-end graphics, sophisticated game design and hot-blooded hype have all contributed to its success - as well as the size of China's gaming community, which is the largest in the world.

From BBC

Clearly there’s a large, hot-blooded audience for this brand of erotic spectatorship, even if you wouldn’t necessarily know it from mainstream American movies, which have become a depressingly sexless, seduction-free zone by comparison.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s hot-blooded — there’s sexual tension and aggression and a real hyper-physicality in excess.

From Los Angeles Times

When the coolheaded, non-Sicilian Tom argues that the family shouldn’t take the attack on its patriarch personally, he’s trying to defuse the rage of the hot-blooded Sonny.

From New York Times

He’s always been most comfortable and confident writing in a mode that’s “a bit more analytical, a little less hot-blooded,” he said, and tries to explain subjects as if coming to them from another world.

From New York Times