cold-blooded Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite without compunction or human feeling
    cold; inhuman; insensate.
    • in cold blood
    • cold-blooded killing
    • insensate destruction
  2. adjective having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)

WordNet


Cold"-blood`ed adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913