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English Dictionary: cold-blooded by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cold-blooded
adj
  1. without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
    Synonym(s): cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
  2. having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)
    Antonym(s): warm-blooded
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cold-blooded \Cold"-blood`ed\, a.
      1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood
            is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
  
      2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
  
      3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are
            derived from the common stock of a country.
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