Dictionary

hot-natured en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (Chinese, traditional) Associated with Yang; stimulating or inflammatory.
   • 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:
   • After ingestion warm-natured foods travel to the lungs and support and stimulate their function; these warm-natured foods are therefore beneficial for Yin Type A's, born with weaker lungs. Hot-natured foods travel to the spleen and support and stimulate its function; thus hot-natured foods are beneficial for Yin Type B's, born with a weaker spleen. 2014, Gary Wagman, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN:
   • 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. 1976, Charles M. Leslie, Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study, →ISBN, page 324:
2. Highly sensitive to hot temperatures and preferring cold temperatures.
   • Some people are hot-natured; some are cold-natured. Whoever has the thermostat controls the temperature. 2005, Suzette S. Schultz, Jon S. Schultz, The Complete Guide to Designing Your Law Office, →ISBN, page 127:
   • 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. 2001, Terry Mirll -, Children and Fools: A Twisted Tale of the Vienna Woods, →ISBN, page 35:
   • I'm just naturally hot-natured. I only used it that once, and it was with the sheets and comforter straight out of the dryer, so the blanket is clean and like brand-new. 2007, Mary Saums, Thistle and Twigg, →ISBN:
   • It was a remote outpost of Greenland with a^([sic]) average daytime temperature of six degrees, which usually occurred in late July. Nine months of the year, the town of less than 500 rarely got above zero. My future could take place in a home for insane and homicidal wizards, with possible field trips to hunt muskoxen. On the plus side, I'd be so hot-natured the absurd temperatures might feel pleasant. 2013, Suzanne Johnson, Elysian Fields, →ISBN, page 65:
3. Highly emotional and impulsive.
   • 'He was a volatile personality, hot-tempered, hot-natured,' remembers Bob. 1999, Nick Wood, Coffin Nails and Tombstone Trails, →ISBN:
   • See if you can analyze the root of my hot-natured temperament or why, to this day, I kick myself for not picking one course in life to follow. 2006, Don Cherry, Neil T. Daniels, Cherry's Jubilee: Singin' and Swingin' Through Life with Dino and Frank, Arnie and Jack, →ISBN:
   • 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. 1884, Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling, The Dictionary of English History, page 767:
4. Lusty.
   • She's just built for lovin', she's a beautiful hot-natured sweet thing, that Jackie. 1961, Weldon Hill, The long summer of George Adams, page 94:
   • Paula Giddings posits that the stereotype of the sexually potent Black male was largely based on that of the promiscuous Black female. He would have to be potent ... to satisfy such hot-natured women. 1993, Mary Young, Mules and dragons: popular culture images in the selected writings of African-American and Chinese-American women writers, page 9:
   • Subsequently, Mr. Watkins used his life savings to start a successful business of his own with his daughter, Chozelle, a hot-natured twenty-year-old who had a propensity for older fast-talking men with even faster hands. 2011, Victor McGlothin, Ms. Etta's Fast House, →ISBN, page 1:
5. Thriving in hotter environments; tropical or semitropical.
   • You will find plenty of possibilities among other hot-natured annuals that share bloom time with abelmoschus. 2000, Barbara Pleasant, Annual flowers, →ISBN, page 66:
   • ... as there is no frost or snow in the south and flowers growing there are hot-natured too. 2003, Bencao Gangmu, page 3308:
   • 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

cold-natured