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Adjective: cold (colder,coldest) kówld- 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" - 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" - Having lost freshness through passage of time
"a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent" - (colour) giving no sensation of warmth
"a cold bluish grey" - Marked by errorless familiarity
"had her lines cold before rehearsals started" - Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- stale, dusty, moth-eaten - So intense as to be almost uncontrollable
"cold fury gripped him" - Sexually unresponsive
"was cold to his advances"
- frigid - Without compunction or human feeling
"in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"
- cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate - Feeling or showing no enthusiasm
"a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play" - Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
"the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold" - Of a seeker; far from the object sought
- Lacking the warmth of life
"cold in his grave"
Noun: cold kówld- 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 - The absence of heat
"come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
- coldness, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness - The sensation produced by low temperatures
"he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"
- coldness
Sounds like: coaled Derived forms: colds, colder, coldest See also: acold [archaic], algid, arctic, bleak, chilly, coldly, coldness, cool, crisp, cutting, dead, emotionalism, emotionality, emotionless, far, frigid, frigorific, frore [archaic], frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, heatless, ice-cold, icy, inhumane, intense, nipping, nippy [Brit, Cdn], parky [Brit], passionless, perfect, polar, raw, refrigerant, refrigerated, refrigerating, rimed, rimy, shivery, snappy, stale, stone-cold, temperature, unconscious, unenthusiastic, unheated, unloving, unoriginal, unwarmed, wintry Type of: communicable disease, pressor, respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness, temperature, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor Antonym: hot Encyclopedia: Cold, Cheap & Disconnected Cold Cold, Cold Heart Cold, dead hands Cold, dead hand |