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blooded

blooded

77 8.5
An animal with pure breeding and a known family line
  • adjective
  • /ˈblʌdɪd/
translation icon : de pura sangre
  • Young Bear is a full-blooded, fully enrolled member of the Mesquakie settlement near Tama, Iowa.
  • full-blooded
  • blooded animals

Hitler had different theories about what made one pure blooded in the race essentialist view of our liberal contemporaries.

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Examples

  • Born to a full blooded English woman and AUS army Sergeant in England.

  • My dad is a full blooded Mexican man.

  • I'm a red blooded American and I love the soil.

  • So I did what any normal, red-blooded American would do.

  • And after a while, he did what any red-blooded American boy would do.

  • Look, Ma, I'm a real red-blooded American boy, and I can prove it.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • You're a young, red-blooded guy, and that is a very pretty girl.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • He may be a little lost and confused, but deep down he's an all-American, red-blooded male.

  • She is a blooded horse, descended from champions and known for her racing skills.

  • The blooded dog showed its pedigree papers, proving its lineage is of the highest quality.

Synonyms

full-blooded
vsblooded
2 5.0

Having parents and ancestors all from the same race or breed

emphasizes recognized pedigree rather than only stating ancestry
full-blood
vsblooded
2 7.2

A person or animal whose parents both come from the same group

covers formal pedigree or wider unmixed ancestry beyond the parents
pureblooded
vsblooded
  • Specialized
6.8

An animal whose parents and grandparents are the same breed with papers showing no mixing

allows pedigree recognition without strict documented proof

Antonyms

13 5.8

A dog whose parents are different breeds

7.0

An animal whose one parent is pure and the other parent is mixed

Compounds

red-blooded
  • Informal
9 5.8

Full of lively energy and strong feelings

cold-blooded
  • Specialized
5 3.7

An animal whose body temperature changes with the air or water temperature

warm-blooded
  • Specialized
4 3.5

An animal that keeps a steady temperature inside its body, like humans and birds

2 5.0

Having parents and ancestors all from the same race or breed

1 8.2

A person who comes from a royal or noble family and has high social rank

A decision made without feeling or pity that harms people

Being fond of the sea and animals that live in water

Showing strong health and energy in body or mind

An animal with only one purebred parent

How Purebred

purebred
  • Specialized
11 4.6
blooded
77 8.5
crossbred
4.8
mixed
1 3.0

Surface Forms

blooded positive

Morphology

blooded = blood (semi-transparent) = blood + ed

Formed from 'blood' + '-ed' (having/possessing), but the specific sense 'of pure or unmixed ancestry' is a specialized extension of 'blood' and may not be directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

Blooded comes from blood, which long ago was used to mean 'family' or 'breeding', so blooded describes an animal with a pure family line. Think of words like pure-blood or blue-blood, which show the same idea of a pure family line.