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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 | ||
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