coldadjective
uk/kəʊld/us/koʊld/cold adjective (LOW TEMPERATURE)
A1 at a low temperature, especially when compared to the temperature of the human body, and not hot, or warm:
a cold day/house
cold food/water
cold hands
cold weather
My feet are so cold.
It's freezing cold today.
You'll feel cold if you don't wear a coat.
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- It's very cold so put a jumper on.
- "I'm cold." "Shall I close this window?"
- A blast of cold air hit him as he opened the window.
- We spent the day on the beach but it was too cold to go swimming.
- I had a cold chicken breast and salad for lunch.
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- biting
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- cooling
- dank
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- occluded front
- perished
- stone-cold
- windchill
- wintry
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cold adjective (UNFRIENDLY)
B1 not showing kindness, love, or emotion and not friendly:
His handshake was cold, and his eyes lifeless.
He stared into her cold, blue eyes.
She would never feel welcome in this city with its cold, unsmiling inhabitants.
The school was a cold, unwelcoming place.
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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
- icy
- saturnine
- sour
- unsociable
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Not showing or feeling emotions
coldness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈkəʊld.nəs/us/ˈkoʊld.nəs/
C2
It was the coldness of her manner that struck me.
Idiom(s)
be (as) cold as ice
be cold comfort
cold hands, warm heart
get cold feet
give sb the cold shoulder
in cold blood
in the cold light of day
pour/throw cold water on sth
you're getting colder
coldnoun
uk/kəʊld/us/koʊld/cold noun (ILLNESS)
A2 [ C ] a common infection, especially in the nose and throat, that often causes a cough, a slight fever, and sometimes some pain in the muscles:
I've got a cold.
She caught a cold at school.
UK informal Don't come near me - I've got a stinking/streaming cold (= extremely bad cold).
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Colds & flu
- bunged up
- chesty
- chill
- congested
- coughing fit
- flu
- frog
- hacking cough
- have a frog in your throat idiom
- head cold
- influenza
- runny
- sneeze
- sniff
- sniffle
- snuffle
- stuffed up
- swine flu
- the common cold
- tickle
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cold noun (LOW TEMPERATURE)
B1 [ S or U ] cold weather or temperatures:
Don't stand out there in the cold, come in here and get warm.
Old people tend to feel the cold (= feel uncomfortable in cold temperatures) more than the young.
My feet were numb with cold.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- biting
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- cooling
- dank
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- occluded front
- perished
- stone-cold
- windchill
- wintry
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