blooded — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. bloody, bleeding.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

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   Blackburn's cause was not helped when Morten Gamst Pedersen and Gael Givet collided going for the same ball, both players emerging blooded and dazed but otherwise unharmed.

2. Experienced (especially in warfare).

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Antonyms

   unblooded

   Examples

   I'll let a rookie march behind me with a loaded weapon once he's been blooded in combat, until then he stays in front where I can see which way he's pointing.

3. Following a modifying word in a compound: Having a certain physiological characteristic, particularly in relation to blood or the circulatory system.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   Mammals are warm-blooded.

4. Following a modifying word in a compound: Having a certain kind of temperament or disposition.

   Usage

   • Figurative
   • not-comparable

   Examples

   Only a cold-blooded killer could have done something like this.

5. Following a modifying word in a compound: Having ancestry to a certain degree.

   Usage

   • Figurative
   • not-comparable

   Examples

   He's a full-blooded Irishman.

6. Following a modifying word in a compound: Having a certain ancestry.

   Usage

   • Derogatory
   • Figurative
   • not-comparable
   • sometimes

   Examples

   A blue-blooded aristocrat.

7. Derived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • usually
   • of horses

Adjective

1. of unmixed ancestry

   Synonyms

   full-bloodedfull-blood

   Examples

   full-blooded Native American

   blooded Jersies