cold-blooded

Definition von cold-blooded im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: Having an unregulated body temperature; ectothermic; Lacking emotion or compunction; without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"; Animals with a body temperature that changes with the external environment; Cold-blooded animals have a body temperature that changes according to the surrounding temperature. Reptiles, for example, are cold-blooded. warm-blooded; {s} brutal, cruel, malicious; disapproval Someone who is cold-blooded does not show any pity or emotion. a cold-blooded murderer This was a brutal and cold-blooded killing; A vertebrate animal is cold-blooded if its temperature changes with the outside temperature; having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated); poikilotherm
cold-blooded murder: brutal homicide, cruel murder, malicious killing
cold blood: A state of mild or low emotions, previously understood as a condition whereby the blood has not been appreciably heated by emotional intensity
Cold blooded: poikilothermal
cold-bloodedly: in a cold-blooded manner; "he cold-bloodedly planned the murder of his boss
coldblooded: alternative spelling of cold-blooded
coldblooded: Not thoroughbred; said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country
coldblooded: Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted
coldblooded: Having cold blood; said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them