cold

  • (a) having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
    • a cold climate
    • a cold room
    • dinner has gotten cold
    • cold fingers
    • if you are cold, turn up the heat
    • a cold beer
  • (a) extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
    • a cold unfriendly nod
    • a cold and unaffectionate person
    • a cold impersonal manner
    • cold logic
    • the concert left me cold
  • (s) having lost freshness through passage of time
    • a cold trail
    • dogs attempting to catch a cold scent
  • (s) (color) giving no sensation of warmth
    • a cold bluish grey
  • (s) marked by errorless familiarity
    • had her lines cold before rehearsals started
  • (s) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
    • moth-eaten theories about race
    • stale news
    dusty, stale, moth-eaten,
  • (s) so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
    • cold fury gripped him
  • (s) sexually unresponsive
    • was cold to his advances
    • a frigid woman
    frigid,
  • (s) without compunction or human feeling
    • in cold blood
    • cold-blooded killing
    • insensate destruction
    cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate,
  • (s) feeling or showing no enthusiasm
    • a cold audience
    • a cold response to the new play
  • (s) unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
    • the boxer was out cold
    • pass out cold
  • (s) of a seeker; far from the object sought
  • (s) lacking the warmth of life
    • cold in his grave

Nouns

  • (n) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
    • will they never find a cure for the common cold?
    common cold,
  • (n) the absence of heat
    • the coldness made our breath visible
    • come in out of the cold
    • cold is a vasoconstrictor
    low temperature, frigidity, frigidness, coldness,
  • (n) the sensation produced by low temperatures
    • he shivered from the cold
    • the cold helped clear his head
    coldness,

Synonyms

common cold low temperature frigidity frigidness coldness dusty stale moth-eaten frigid cold-blooded inhuman insensate

Antonyms

hot high temperature hotness heat

See also

cool frozen passionless

Words of close approximity

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coal coat coax coca cock coco coda code Cody Cohn coho coif coil coin coir coke cola cole colt coma comb come comp cone conk conn cony cook cool coon coop coot cope Copt copy Cora cord core cork corm corn corp cosh coss cost cosy cote Coue coup cove cowl cows coxa cozy
cold-blooded cold-bloodedly cold cash cold cathode cold cereal cold chisel coldcock cold comfort coldcream cold cream cold-cream cold cuts cold duck cold-eyed cold feet cold fish cold frame cold front cold fusion cold gangrene coldhearted coldheartedness coldly cold medicine coldness cold rubber cold shoulder cold-shoulder cold snap cold sober cold sore cold spell cold storage cold stuffed tomato cold sweat cold-temperate cold turkey cold war cold water cold-water flat cold wave cold weather coldwork cold work