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warmest-blooded

warmest-blooded is the superlative form of warm-blooded.

Meaning of warm-blooded

Adjective

warm-blooded (comparative more warm-blooded or warmer-blooded, superlative most warm-blooded or warmest-blooded)

  1. Maintaining a relatively constant and warm body temperature, regardless of the ambient temperature; endothermic.
    • The cold-blooded animals are all feeble breathers, and the most energetic breathers are the warmest-blooded. A mollusc, a fish, a frog, a quadruped, and a bird, represent the various stages of this correspondence.1858 October, [George Henry Lewes], “Animal Heat”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LXXXIV, number DXVI, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, page 427, column 1
  2. (idiomatic) Passionate.
    • Claire jumped from her chair and smiled the warmest-blooded smile that she could muster.2003, Adele Griffin, Witch Twins and Melody Malady, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion Books for Children, →ISBN, page 27

Questions about warmest-blooded

What is warmest-blooded the superlative form of?
Warmest-blooded is the superlative form of warm-blooded.

Words near warmest-blooded in the dictionary

  1. warmer-uppers
  2. warmers
  3. warmes
  4. warmest
  5. warmest regards
  6. warmest-blooded
  7. warmeth
  8. Warmfield
  9. Warmfield cum Heath
  10. warmful
  11. warmhearted

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