blooded
adjUS /ˈblʌ.dəd/
Etymology From Middle English bloded, equivalent to blood + -ed.
7 senses
1
bloody, bleeding.
- 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.2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
2
Experienced (especially in warfare).
- 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.
› Following a modifying word in a compound:
3
Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology Having a certain physiological characteristic, particularly in relation to blood or the circulatory system.
- Mammals are warm-blooded.
4
Figuratively Having a certain kind of temperament or disposition.
- Only a cold-blooded killer could have done something like this.
5
Figuratively Having ancestry to a certain degree.
Sometimes offensive in compounds that refer to purity or partial degrees
- He's a full-blooded Irishman.
6
Derogatory, Figuratively, Sometimes Having a certain ancestry.
- A blue-blooded aristocrat.
- Derived terms
- bloodedness, blue-blooded, blueblooded, cold-blooded, coldblooded, fish-blooded, fishblooded, full-blooded, fullblooded, half-blooded, halfblooded, hot-blooded, hotblooded, non-blooded, nonblooded, pure-blooded, pureblooded, red-blooded, redblooded, same-blooded, sameblooded, unblooded, warm-blooded, warmblooded