FULL-BLOODED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does full-blooded mean? 

• FULL-BLOODED (adjective)
  The adjective FULL-BLOODED has 2 senses:

1. of unmixed ancestry

2. endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health

  Familiarity information: FULL-BLOODED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FULL-BLOODED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of unmixed ancestry

Synonyms:

blooded; full-blood; full-blooded

Context example:

blooded Jersies

Similar:

purebred (bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health

Synonyms:

full-blooded; hearty; lusty; red-blooded

Context example:

a hearty glow of health

Similar:

healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)

 Context examples 

The sight of him put me at my ease, for he was a merry-looking man, handsome too in a portly, full-blooded way, with laughing eyes and pouting, sensitive lips.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Either of the two fleshy, full-blooded margins of the mouth.

(Murine Lip, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

He was a hearty, full-blooded fellow, full of spirits and energy, the very opposite to me in most respects, but we had some subjects in common, and it was a bond of union when I found that he was as friendless as I. Finally, he invited me down to his father’s place at Donnithorpe, in Norfolk, and I accepted his hospitality for a month of the long vacation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then, as these full-blooded, powerful men became heated with their wine, angry eyes began to glare across the table, and amid the grey swirls of tobacco-smoke the lamp-light gleamed upon the fierce, hawk-like Jews, and the flushed, savage Saxons.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a type and leader of a strange breed of men which has vanished away from England—the full-blooded, virile buck, exquisite in his dress, narrow in his thoughts, coarse in his amusements, and eccentric in his habits.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The long, many-pillared room, with its mirrors and chandeliers, was crowded with full-blooded, loud-voiced men-about-town, all in the same dark evening dress with white silk stockings, cambric shirt-fronts, and little, flat chapeau-bras under their arms.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)