warm-blooded

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warm-blooded

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From warm + blooded.

adjective more warm-blooded · warmer-blooded · most warm-blooded · warmest-blooded · warmblooded

  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.
  2. idiomatic Passionate. Claire jumped from her chair and smiled the warmest-blooded smile that she could muster.

Similar: endothermic, homeothermic · Opposite: cold-blooded, ectothermic

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Similar: endothermic, homeothermic · Opposite: cold-blooded, ectothermic

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@misc{warm_blooded_2026,
  title = {warm-blooded},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/warm-blooded},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}