Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily excited or aroused.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having hot blood; hence, of an excitable temper; high-spirited; irritable; passionate: amatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Easily angered or excited;
lustful ;passionate ;excitable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective prone to emotion
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Examples
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As the family-oriented police drama continues its successful limited run on Wednesdays, it's a big episode for Donnie Wahlberg's hot-blooded Danny Reagan.
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Joan Snyder "Landscape" (1970) A 2007 MacArthur Foundation fellow, Ms. Snyder (b. 1940) is an autobiographical and confessional artist—a hot-blooded romantic and a no-holds-barred expressionist who embraces anything and everything (crafts and children's art; Mondrian and graffiti).
The Lady of the Wild Things Lance Esplund 2011
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Drab-colored, swamp-bound simpletons, they were left to sit in the Mesozoic muck until the great "Dinosaur Renaissance" of the 1970s gave them a supercharged, hot-blooded overhaul.
That's Not a Dinosaur! Brian Switek 2011
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In other words, just like we are not all maids or gardeners, full-bodied bombshells or hot-blooded lovers, we are also not all getting married and having children in traditional ways.
Galina Espinoza: The Myth Of The Latina Mami Galina Espinoza 2011
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The 145-work "Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance" demonstrates how the Flemish painter's 1508 trip to Rome paved the way for such Northern European painters as Rubens to adopt Italy's hot-blooded subjects and painting styles.
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The parade of visual stimulation that Madrid provided — no human could turn down the invitation to view the exquisite buildings with their elaborate décor, the turbulent history and hot-blooded culture and the glamour that clustered in and around all three.
The Juniper Days - Part I Alison Earls 2011
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It's unique, intense and as hot-blooded as a charging bull.
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It was a windy, bitter-cold night (always a plus for this hot-blooded animal).
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Yet, crucially for America's as well as his own future, Washington was endowed with preternatural leadership qualities — primarily the ability to seem confident when privately he felt, as Mr. Chernow puts it, "gloomy, scathing, hot-blooded and pessimistic."
O Captain, Our Captain Andrew Roberts 2010
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In other words, just like we are not all maids or gardeners, full-bodied bombshells or hot-blooded lovers, we are also not all getting married and having children in traditional ways.
Galina Espinoza: The Myth Of The Latina Mami Galina Espinoza 2011
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