hot-natured

Adjective

hot-natured (comparative more hot-natured, superlative most hot-natured)

1. (Chinese, traditional) Associated with Yang; stimulating or inflammatory.
   • A Tai-yang state is one in which hot-natured reactions take place at the outside region of the body— that is, headache, fever, or chilliness.1976, Charles M. Leslie, Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study, →ISBN, page 324
   • A cold-natured herb is different from a cool-natured one only in degree; so is a warm-natured herb different from a hot-natured herb.2000, Kelvin Chan, Lily Cheung, Interactions Between Chinese Herbal Medicinal Products and Orthodox Drugs, →ISBN, page 28
2. Highly sensitive to hot temperatures and preferring cold temperatures.
   • I stood outside the group, partly from a dislike of being crowded, but mostly because I tend to be kind of hot-natured, which means I have a certain affinity with cold weather.2001, Terry Mirll -, Children and Fools: A Twisted Tale of the Vienna Woods, →ISBN, page 35
   • Some people are hot-natured; some are cold-natured. Whoever has the thermostat controls the temperature.2005, Suzette S. Schultz, Jon S. Schultz, The Complete Guide to Designing Your Law Office, →ISBN, page 127
3. Highly emotional and impulsive.
   • The aristocratic class that the free-living, hot-natured pirate leaders had founded, and the unrestrained passions of the dukes replenished from generation to generation, were ever on the watch for an opportunity to break loose from all rule, and goven themselves and the native tillers of the soil...1884, Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling, The Dictionary of English History, page 767
   • 'He was a volatile personality, hot-tempered, hot-natured,' remembers Bob.1999, Nick Wood, Coffin Nails and Tombstone Trails, →ISBN
4. Lusty.
   • She's just built for lovin', she's a beautiful hot-natured sweet thing, that Jackie.1961, Weldon Hill, The long summer of George Adams, page 94
   • Paula Giddings posits that the stereotype of the sexually potent Black male was largely based on that of the promiscuous Black female. He would have to be potent ... to satisfy such hot-natured women.1993, Mary Young, Mules and dragons: popular culture images in the selected writings of African-American and Chinese-American women writers, page 9
5. Thriving in hotter environments; tropical or semitropical.
   • Thus, fish are moister and cooler; land animals are warmer; hot-natured trees thrive in warmer climates, and cold-natured plants in cold.1997, Per Bilde, Conventional Values of the Hellenistic Greeks, →ISBN, page 116
   • You will find plenty of possibilities among other hot-natured annuals that share bloom time with abelmoschus.2000, Barbara Pleasant, Annual flowers, →ISBN, page 66