cold-natured

English

Adjective

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

1. (traditional Chinese medicine) Associated with Yin; Having the effects of lowering fevers and removing toxic substances.
   • 1992, Steven Foster, Yue Chongxi, Herbal Emissaries: Bringing Chinese Herbs to the West, →ISBN:

     The general principle of treatment is to treat heat-syndrome diseases with cold-natured drugs, and cold-syndromes with warm-natured drugs.

   • 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, Xutian Stevenson, Tai Shusheng, Yuan Chun-su, Handbook Of Traditional Chinese Medicine, →ISBN, page 1287:

     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.

2. Highly sensitive to cold temperatures.
   • 2004, Bg Locke, Soul Destination, →ISBN, page 71:

     Considering how cold-natured his car was he decided it would be just as easy to walk.

   • 2010 -, Houston Brummit, Talladega Days: Race, Rural Life, and Memories of a Forgotten Legend, →ISBN:

     She was so very cold-natured that you had to have a fire all night.

   • 2011, Rice Freeman-Zachery, Tonia Davenport, Destination Creativity: The Life-Altering Journey of the Art Retreat, →ISBN:

     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.

3. Tending to be unemotional and unsympathetic.
   • 1996, Candace Schuler, Easy Lovin', →ISBN, page 205:

     No, he was thinking, Kate isn't cold-natured at all. Not by any stretch of the imagination! She was sweet and warm and loving,

   • 2009, Hazel Dixon-Cooper, Love on a Rotten Day: An Astrological Survival Guide to Romance, →ISBN:

     You'll have material success and a cold-natured partner who pencils your love-making in his or her calendar — as long as it doesn't interfere with the next board meeting.

   • 2014, Dawn Maree Ketteringham, Richard Ketteringham, Revolving Doors, →ISBN:

     This step-mother was cold-natured, controlling, mean-spirited and completely overbearing, at least from Berneice's perspective.

4. (horticulture) Thriving in colder environments.
   • 1852, Charles Dickens, Household Words - Volume 6, page 276:

     Line the whole crust or fortifying boundary on its inside to the north, facing the south, with a conservatory for tropical plants, &c, that shall enclose twenty acres ; line it to the south, facing the north, with a conservatory of the same size for " cold- natured vegetation."

   • 1984, Kent Whealy, Seed Savers ... Summer Edition, page 103:

     In addition to being an SSE member, we are also conducting our own seed exchange program, and we will gladly send trial samples of either Siberia or Glacier to SSE members for any cold-natured variety of tomato, beans, peas, squash or pumpkin that is no longer being sold.

   • 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.

Antonyms

• hot-natured