cold-natured
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Associated with Yin; Having the effects of lowering fevers and removing toxic substances.
adj
adj
Tending to be unemotional and unsympathetic.
adj
Example Sentences
- "The general principle of treatment is to treat heat-syndrome diseases with cold-natured drugs, and cold-syndromes with warm-natured drugs."
- "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."
- "Moreover, due to the failure to distinguish Yin from Yang, many TCM pharmacologists misjudge Yang deficiency syndrome and have misused cold-natured drugs for a long period of time."
- "Considering how cold-natured his car was he decided it would be just as easy to walk."
- "She was so very cold-natured that you had to have a fire all night."
- "If you're cold-natured and tend to get chilled easily, you're going to need to plan ahead so you can relax and have fun instead of trying to keep warm."
Inflected Forms
more cold-natured (comparative)
most cold-natured (superlative)