English adjective: cold | |||
1. | cold having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration | ||
Samples | A cold climate. A cold room. Dinner has gotten cold. Cold fingers. If you are cold, turn up the heat. A cold beer. | ||
Similar | acold, algid, arctic, bleak, chilly, crisp, cutting, frigid, frigorific, frore, frosty, frosty, gelid, glacial, heatless, ice-cold, icy, nipping, nippy, parky, polar, raw, refrigerant, refrigerated, refrigerating, rimed, rimy, shivery, snappy, stone-cold, unheated, unwarmed | ||
See also | cool, frozen | ||
Attribute | temperature | ||
Antonyms | hot | ||
2. | cold extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion | ||
Samples | A cold unfriendly nod. A cold and unaffectionate person. A cold impersonal manner. Cold logic. The concert left me cold. | ||
Similar | emotionless, frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, passionless, wintry | ||
See also | cool, passionless | ||
Attribute | emotionalism, emotionality | ||
Antonyms | hot | ||
3. | cold having lost freshness through passage of time | ||
Samples | A cold trail. Dogs attempting to catch a cold scent. | ||
Similar | stale | ||
Antonyms | fresh | ||
4. | cold (color) giving no sensation of warmth | ||
Samples | A cold bluish grey. | ||
Similar | cool | ||
Antonyms | warm | ||
5. | cold marked by errorless familiarity | ||
Samples | Had her lines cold before rehearsals started. | ||
Similar | perfect | ||
Antonyms | imperfect | ||
6. | cold lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new | ||
Samples | Moth-eaten theories about race. Stale news. | ||
Synonyms | dusty, moth-eaten, stale | ||
Similar | unoriginal | ||
Antonyms | original | ||
7. | cold so intense as to be almost uncontrollable | ||
Samples | Cold fury gripped him. | ||
Similar | intense | ||
Antonyms | mild | ||
8. | cold sexually unresponsive | ||
Samples | Was cold to his advances. A frigid woman. | ||
Synonyms | frigid | ||
Similar | unloving | ||
Antonyms | loving | ||
9. | cold without compunction or human feeling | ||
Samples | In cold blood. Cold-blooded killing. Insensate destruction. | ||
Synonyms | cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate | ||
Similar | inhumane | ||
Antonyms | humane | ||
10. | cold feeling or showing no enthusiasm | ||
Samples | A cold audience. A cold response to the new play. | ||
Similar | unenthusiastic | ||
Antonyms | enthusiastic | ||
11. | cold unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication | ||
Samples | The boxer was out cold. Pass out cold. | ||
Similar | unconscious | ||
Antonyms | conscious | ||
12. | cold of a seeker; far from the object sought | ||
Similar | far | ||
Antonyms | near, nigh, close | ||
13. | cold lacking the warmth of life | ||
Samples | Cold in his grave. | ||
Similar | dead | ||
Antonyms | alive, live | ||
English noun: cold | |||
1. | cold (state) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs) | ||
Samples | Will they never find a cure for the common cold?. | ||
Synonyms | common cold | ||
Broader (hypernym) | communicable disease, respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | head cold | ||
Part holonym | rhinorrhea | ||
2. | cold (attribute) the absence of heat | ||
Samples | The coldness made our breath visible. Come in out of the cold. Cold is a vasoconstrictor. | ||
Synonyms | coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature | ||
Broader (hypernym) | pressor, temperature, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | chill, chilliness, cool, coolness, frostiness, gelidity, iciness, nip | ||
Antonyms | high temperature, hotness, heat | ||
3. | cold (cognition) the sensation produced by low temperatures | ||
Samples | He shivered from the cold. The cold helped clear his head. | ||
Synonyms | coldness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | temperature | ||