cold-blooded

1. 1.

   without compunction or human feeling

   “in cold blood”

   “cold-blooded killing”

   “insensate destruction”

   Synonymscoldinhumaninsensate

   Similarinhumane
2. 2.

   having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)

   Antonymswarm-blooded

   Similarpoikilothermic

   zoology

Questions about cold-blooded

What does cold-blooded mean?

cold-blooded means "without compunction or human feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cold-blooded?

cold-blooded has 3 syllables: cold--blood-ed. The stress falls on "cold-". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊldˈblʌdəd/.

What is another word for cold-blooded?

Close synonyms include cold, inhuman, insensate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of cold-blooded?

The recorded antonyms are warm-blooded.

Is cold-blooded a common word?

cold-blooded is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.