'Cold-blooded' definitions:
Definition of 'cold-blooded'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate]
adjective
Having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated) [ant: warm-blooded]
Definition of 'Cold-blooded'
From: GCIDE
- Cold-blooded \Cold"-blood`ed\, a.
- 1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cold-blooded'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apathetic,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- brutal,
- callous,
- cool,
- cruel,
- dispassionate,
- heartless,
- imperturbable,
- indifferent,
- inhuman,
- insensitive,
- merciless,
- pitiless,
- poikilothermic,
- ruthless,
- savage,
- steely,
- stony,
- thick-skinned,
- uncaring,
- unemotional,
- unexcited,
- unfeeling,
- unimpassioned,
- unmoved,
- unresponsive,
- unsympathetic,
- vicious