Meaning of hot-natured | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Associated with Yang; stimulating or inflammatory.
   Chinese, traditional
2. Highly sensitive to hot temperatures and preferring cold temperatures.
3. Highly emotional and impulsive.
4. Lusty.
5. Thriving in hotter environments; tropical or semitropical.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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