hot-blooded

adjective more hot-blooded · hotter-blooded · most hot-blooded · hottest-blooded · hotblooded

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.
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 presumabl

   Similar: lustful, passionate, excitable

3. of a horse 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

   Similar: warm-blooded