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hotter-blooded

hotter-blooded is the comparative form of hot-blooded.

Meaning of hot-blooded

Adjective

hot-blooded (comparative more hot-blooded or hotter-blooded, superlative most hot-blooded or hottest-blooded)

  1. Easily angered or excited.
    • So much stronger and hotter-blooded than the motive of gain is that other motive, that we call racial arrogance and lust of domination when displayed in Europe, but describe more indulgently when our countrymen act upon it in Africa.1941, Norman Leys, “European Taxation and Related Matters”, in The Colour Bar in East Africa, London: The Hogarth Press […], page 86
  2. Having strong sexual urges; easily aroused.
    • Anyway, Vincent admired the monks for their apparently cheerful stoicism; and, in an abstract, theoretical fashion, he envied them, even as he almost immediately instinctively realized that he could never become one of them. Or could he? Many of the monks, quite obviously, were younger and...1976, Patrick Skene Catling, Bliss Incorporated, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →ISBN, page 48
  3. Light-bodied and lively in temperament, with high speed and endurance.
  4. Synonym of warm-blooded.
    • For my own part, judging from experiments ranging from the cold-blooded to the hottest-blooded animals—from the alligator to the common fowl—I am constrained to say, that after decapitation, the sensational phenomena and voluntary motion are far more strongly indicated in the headless body, than in...1851 June, Bennet Dowler, Experimental Researches, Illustrative of the Functional Oneness, Unity, and Diffusion, of Nervous Action; in Opposition to the Anatomical Assumption, of Four Sets of Nerves...
    Synonyms:
    warm-blooded

Questions about hotter-blooded

What is hotter-blooded the comparative form of?
Hotter-blooded is the comparative form of hot-blooded.

Words near hotter-blooded in the dictionary

  1. hotter
  2. hotter than a pistol
  3. hotter than a two dollar pistol
  4. hotter than a two-dollar pistol
  5. hotter under the collar
  6. hotter-blooded
  7. hotter-headed
  8. hottered
  9. hottering
  10. hotters
  11. hottest

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