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cold-natured en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (Chinese, traditional) Associated with Yin; Having the effects of lowering fevers and removing toxic substances.
   • A cold-natured herb is different from a cool-natured one only in degree; so is a warm-natured herb different from a hot-natured herb. 2000, Kelvin Chan, Lily Cheung, Interactions Between Chinese Herbal Medicinal Products and Orthodox Drugs, →ISBN, page 28:
   • The general principle of treatment is to treat heat-syndrome diseases with cold-natured drugs, and cold-syndromes with warm-natured drugs. 1992, Steven Foster, Yue Chongxi, Herbal Emissaries: Bringing Chinese Herbs to the West, →ISBN:
   • Moreover, due to the failure to distinguish Yin from Yang, many TCM pharmacologists misjudge Yang deficiency syndrome and have misused cold-natured drugs for a long period of time. 2014, Xutian Stevenson, Tai Shusheng, Yuan Chun-su, Handbook Of Traditional Chinese Medicine, →ISBN, page 1287:
2. Highly sensitive to cold temperatures.
   • If you're cold-natured and tend to get chilled easily, you're going to need to plan ahead so you can relax and have fun instead of trying to keep warm. 2011, Rice Freeman-Zachery, Tonia Davenport, Destination Creativity: The Life-Altering Journey of the Art Retreat, →ISBN:
   • She was so very cold-natured that you had to have a fire all night. 2010 -, Houston Brummit, Talladega Days: Race, Rural Life, and Memories of a Forgotten Legend, →ISBN:
   • Considering how cold-natured his car was he decided it would be just as easy to walk. 2004, Bg Locke, Soul Destination, →ISBN, page 71:
3. Tending to be unemotional and unsympathetic.
   • No, he was thinking, Kate isn't cold-natured at all. Not by any stretch of the imagination! She was sweet and warm and loving, 1996, Candace Schuler, Easy Lovin', →ISBN, page 205:
   • You'll have material success and a cold-natured partner who pencils your love-making in his or her calendar — as long as it doesn't interfere with the next board meeting. 2009, Hazel Dixon-Cooper, Love on a Rotten Day: An Astrological Survival Guide to Romance, →ISBN:
   • This step-mother was cold-natured, controlling, mean-spirited and completely overbearing, at least from Berneice's perspective. 2014, Dawn Maree Ketteringham, Richard Ketteringham, Revolving Doors, →ISBN:
4. Thriving in colder environments.
   • In addition to being an SSE member, we are also conducting our own seed exchange program, and we will gladly send trial samples of either Siberia or Glacier to SSE members for any cold-natured variety of tomato, beans, peas, squash or pumpkin that is no longer being sold. 1984, Kent Whealy, Seed Savers ... Summer Edition, page 103:
   • Line the whole crust or fortifying boundary on its inside to the north, facing the south, with a conservatory for tropical plants, &c, that shall enclose twenty acres ; line it to the south, facing the north, with a conservatory of the same size for " cold- natured vegetation." 1852, Charles Dickens, Household Words - Volume 6, page 276:
   • Thus, fish are moister and cooler; land animals are warmer; hot-natured trees thrive in warmer climates, and cold-natured plants in cold. 1997, Per Bilde, Conventional Values of the Hellenistic Greeks, →ISBN, page 116:

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Antonyms

hot-natured