hot-blooded

hot–blooded

adjective

Definition of HOT-BLOODED

having or expressing great depth of feeling <after watching the successful defense of Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key quickly wrote the hot-blooded poem that later became known as “The Star-Spangled Banner”>

Synonyms ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded

Related Words gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugary; histrionic, melodramatic; enthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealous; enamored, infatuated, obsessed; uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained; frenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated

Near Antonyms detached, dry, impersonal, objective; reserved, undemonstrative

Antonyms cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional