hot blood
Impulsive emotional state
Hot blood refers to a passionate, excitable temperament—the kind that leads to impulsive action or quick anger.
Crimes committed in hot blood happen in the heat of the moment, driven by emotion rather than calculation, contrasting with cold-blooded premeditation.
Someone described as hot-blooded runs toward passion and away from restraint: a hot-blooded young man who couldn't walk away from a fight.
- passionIntense emotional drive
- crime of passionImpulsive violent act from emotion
- temperState of mind
- rageIntense, violent anger
- fit of rageSudden violent anger episode
see red · fury · fiery · impulsive · ardent · fervent · reckless · youth · desire · lust · anger · pulse · veins · flush · heat · spirited · volatile · quick-tempered
- angeranger, rage, fury, wrath, ire
- lustlust, lustfulness, carnality, concupiscence, libido
- horseshorse, mare, mares, stallion, stallions
- impulsivityimpulsiveness, impulsivity, rashness, recklessness, hastiness
hot bloodcold blood
Deliberate, unfeeling manner
cool-headedness · cool head · sangfroid · composure · equanimity
hot blooddeliberation
Careful weighing of choices
premeditation · calculation · rationality · prudence · circumspection
hot, blood, hotter, hottest, hotly, hotness, bloody, bloodied, bloodless