chillyadjective
uk/ˈtʃɪl.i/us/ˈtʃɪl.i/chilly adjective (COLD)
C1 literary chill (of weather, conditions in a room, or parts of the body) cold:
The bathroom gets chilly in the winter.
I felt a bit chilly so I put on a jacket.
a chilly October day
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- chill
- cooling
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- occluded front
- perished
- raw
- stone-cold
- windchill
- wintry
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chilly adjective (UNFRIENDLY)
unfriendly:
I went to see the sales manager but got a rather chilly reception.
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Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- antisocial
- asocial
- austere
- estrange
- estranged
- forbidding
- frostily
- give sb the time of day idiom
- hostile
- mixer
- saturnine
- sour
- unsociable
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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