- hot-blooded
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adjective
aggressive, amorous, athirst, avid, barbarous, bold, brutal, burning, careless, danger-loving, daredevil, daring, desirous, desperate, eager, excessive, excitable, extreme, febrile, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, foolhardy, frantic, hasty, headstrong, heated, heedless, high-spirited, high-strung, hot-headed, hot-tempered, immoderate, impatient, impractical, imprudent, inattentive, incautious, inflamed, inflammatory, insuppressible, intemperate, intense, intent, irrepressible, lustful, madcap, oversensitive, passionate, piquant, quenchless, quick-tempered, rampant, rash, reckless, risk-taking, savage, sensitive, short-tempered, strong-willed, temerarious, thoughtless, torrid, turbulent, unadvised, unbridled, uncircumspect, uncontrollable, ungentle, ungovernable, unmitigable, unquelled, unquenched, unrepressed, unwary, vehement, venturesome, violent, wanton, willful, zealous
associated concepts: heat of passion, manslaughter, temporary insanity
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006