in cold blood

1. 1.

   emotionlessly and heartlessly; with deliberate cruelty or callousness

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

   Synonymscold-bloodedly

Questions about in cold blood

What does in cold blood mean?

in cold blood means "emotionlessly and heartlessly; with deliberate cruelty or callousness".

What is another word for in cold blood?

Close synonyms include cold-bloodedly. 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 in cold blood a common word?

in cold blood 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.