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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensateadjective

    without compunction or human feeling

    "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"

  2. cold-bloodedadjective

    having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)

Wiktionary

  1. cold-bloodedadjective

    Having an unregulated body temperature; ectothermic.

  2. cold-bloodedadjective

    Lacking emotion or compunction.

  3. Etymology: From cold + blood + -ed.

ChatGPT

  1. cold-blooded

    Cold-blooded refers to organisms, typically reptiles, amphibians, and certain fish, that cannot internally regulate their body temperature and it changes depending on the external environment. These creatures are also known as ectothermic.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cold-bloodedadjective

    having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them

  2. Cold-bloodedadjective

    deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted

  3. Cold-bloodedadjective

    not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cold-blooded in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cold-blooded in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of cold-blooded in a Sentence

  1. Harris County:

    We've heard black lives matter ; all lives matter. Well cops' lives matter too, our system of justice absolutely requires a law enforcement presence to protect our communities, so at any point where the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated cold-blooded assassination of police officers happen( s), this rhetoric has gotten out of control.

  2. Circuit Judge Tim Barnack:

    It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer.

  3. Rob Hardwick:

    This is a cold-blooded murder of a 13-year-old young girl who did not deserve to die.

  4. Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman:

    He was literally gunned down in what appears to be an unprovoked, execution-style killing, i have been in law enforcement for 45 years, I have never seen anything this cold-blooded.

  5. Rebekah Koffler:

    Putin is a cold-blooded, typical Russian autocratic leader and a very calculated risk-taker. He’s simply executing a plan that he has been hatching for 20 years.


Translations for cold-blooded

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  • студенокръвен, хладнокръвен, безчувственBulgarian
  • koldblodigDanish
  • kaltblütigGerman
  • ψυχρόαιμοςGreek
  • sin [[emoción]], de [[sangre]] [[fría]]Spanish
  • kylmäverinenFinnish
  • poïkilotherme, à sang froidFrench
  • hidegvérű, ridegHungarian
  • 冷血Japanese
  • berdarah sejuk, berdarah dinginMalay
  • kil, koudbloedigDutch
  • kaldblodigNorwegian
  • cu sânge receRomanian
  • пойкилотермный, холоднокровный, бесчувственный, хладнокровныйRussian
  • kallblodigSwedish

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