Hot-natured
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Associated with Yang; stimulating or inflammatory. Chinese, traditional
"A Tai-yang state is one in which hot-natured reactions take place at the outside region of the body— that is, headache, fever, or chilliness."
- 2 Highly sensitive to hot temperatures and preferring cold temperatures.
"I stood outside the group, partly from a dislike of being crowded, but mostly because I tend to be kind of hot-natured, which means I have a certain affinity with cold weather."
- 3 Highly emotional and impulsive.
"The aristocratic class that the free-living, hot-natured pirate leaders had founded, and the unrestrained passions of the dukes replenished from generation to generation, were ever on the watch for an opportunity to break loose from all rule, and goven themselves and the native tillers of the soil that lay beneath them at their own sole discretion."
- 4 Lusty.
"She's just built for lovin', she's a beautiful hot-natured sweet thing, that Jackie."
- 5 Thriving in hotter environments; tropical or semitropical.
"Thus, fish are moister and cooler; land animals are warmer; hot-natured trees thrive in warmer climates, and cold-natured plants in cold."
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More examples"A Tai-yang state is one in which hot-natured reactions take place at the outside region of the body— that is, headache, fever, or chilliness."
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