cold-bloodedly

1. 1.

   emotionlessly and heartlessly; with deliberate cruelty or callousness

   “he cold-bloodedly planned the murder of his boss”

   Synonymsin cold blood

Questions about cold-bloodedly

What does cold-bloodedly mean?

cold-bloodedly means "emotionlessly and heartlessly; with deliberate cruelty or callousness".

How many syllables are in cold-bloodedly?

cold-bloodedly has 4 syllables and divides as cold--bloo-ded-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cold-bloodedly?

Close synonyms include in cold blood. 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.

Is cold-bloodedly a common word?

cold-bloodedly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.