hot-blooded

1. 1.

   prone to emotion

   “hot-blooded Latin-Americans”

   Similaremotional

Questions about hot-blooded

What does hot-blooded mean?

hot-blooded means "prone to emotion".

How many syllables are in hot-blooded?

hot-blooded has 3 syllables and divides as hot--bloo-ded 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.

Is hot-blooded a common word?

hot-blooded is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.