hot-natured

English

Adjective

hot-natured (comparative more hot-natured, superlative most hot-natured)

1. (traditional Chinese medicine) Associated with Yang; stimulating or inflammatory.
   • 1976, Charles M. Leslie, Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study, →ISBN, page 324:

     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.

   • 2000, Kelvin Chan, Lily Cheung, Interactions Between Chinese Herbal Medicinal Products and Orthodox Drugs, →ISBN, page 28:

     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.

   • 2014, Gary Wagman, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN:

     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.

2. Highly sensitive to hot temperatures and preferring cold temperatures.
   • 2001, Terry Mirll -, Children and Fools: A Twisted Tale of the Vienna Woods, →ISBN, page 35:

     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.

   • 2005, Suzette S. Schultz, Jon S. Schultz, The Complete Guide to Designing Your Law Office, →ISBN, page 127:

     Some people are hot-natured; some are cold-natured. Whoever has the thermostat controls the temperature.

   • 2007, Mary Saums, Thistle and Twigg, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2013, Suzanne Johnson, Elysian Fields, →ISBN, page 65:

     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.

3. Highly emotional and impulsive.
   • 1884, Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling, The Dictionary of English History, page 767:

     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.

   • 1999, Nick Wood, Coffin Nails and Tombstone Trails, →ISBN:

     'He was a volatile personality, hot-tempered, hot-natured,' remembers Bob.

   • 2006, Don Cherry, Neil T. Daniels, Cherry's Jubilee: Singin' and Swingin' Through Life with Dino and Frank, Arnie and Jack, →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.

4. Lusty.
   • 1961, Weldon Hill, The long summer of George Adams, page 94:

     She's just built for lovin', she's a beautiful hot-natured sweet thing, that Jackie.

   • 1993, Mary Young, Mules and dragons: popular culture images in the selected writings of African-American and Chinese-American women writers, page 9:

     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.

   • 2011, Victor McGlothin, Ms. Etta's Fast House, →ISBN, page 1:

     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.

5. (horticulture) Thriving in hotter environments; tropical or semitropical.
   • 1997, Per Bilde, Conventional Values of the Hellenistic Greeks, →ISBN, page 116:

     Thus, fish are moister and cooler; land animals are warmer; hot-natured trees thrive in warmer climates, and cold-natured plants in cold.

   • 2000, Barbara Pleasant, Annual flowers, →ISBN, page 66:

     You will find plenty of possibilities among other hot-natured annuals that share bloom time with abelmoschus.

   • 2003, Bencao Gangmu, page 3308:

     ... as there is no frost or snow in the south and flowers growing there are hot-natured too.

Antonyms

• cold-natured