windchillnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈwɪnd.tʃɪl/us/ˈwɪnd.tʃɪl/the effect that wind has on how cold the air feels:
It's two degrees outside, but with the windchill factor, it feels like minus five.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey idiom
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- chill
- cooling
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- nuclear winter
- occluded front
- perished
- raw
- stone-cold
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