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Sounds | kow'ld |
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Rhymes | behold, billfold, blindfold, and 47 more rhymes in owld at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Used of physical coldness. Having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration. |
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Examples | "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer" |
Attribute of | temperature |
Similar | acold; algid; arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar; bleak, cutting, raw; crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy, parky; frigorific; frore; frosty, rimed, rimy; heatless; ice-cold; refrigerant, refrigerating; refrigerated; shivery; stone-cold; unheated, unwarmed |
See also | frozen; cool |
Contrary | hot |
Meaning | Extended meanings. Especially of psychological coldness. Without human warmth or emotion. |
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Examples | "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold" |
Attribute of | emotionality, emotionalism |
Similar | emotionless, passionless; frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry |
See also | passionless; cool |
Contrary | hot |
Adverbs | coldly |
Meaning | Having lost freshness through passage of time. |
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Examples | "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent" |
Similar to | stale |
Meaning | (color) giving no sensation of warmth. |
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Examples | "a cold bluish gray" |
Similar to | cool |
Meaning | Marked by errorless familiarity. |
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Examples | "had her lines cold before rehearsals started" |
Similar to | perfect |
Meaning | No longer new. Uninteresting. |
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Examples | "cold (or stale) news" |
Synonyms | stale |
Similar to | old |
Meaning | So intense as to be almost uncontrollable. |
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Examples | "cold fury gripped him" |
Similar to | intense |
Meaning | Sexually unresponsive. |
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Examples | "was cold to his advances" |
Synonyms | frigid |
Similar to | unloving |
Meaning | Without compunction or human feeling. |
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Examples | "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing" |
Synonyms | cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate |
Similar to | inhumane |
Meaning | Feeling or showing no enthusiasm. |
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Examples | "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play" |
Similar to | unenthusiastic |
Meaning | Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication. |
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Examples | "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold" |
Similar to | unconscious |
Meaning | Of a seeker. Far from the object sought. |
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Similar to | far |
Meaning | Lacking the warmth of life. |
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Examples | "cold in his grave" |
Similar to | dead |
Meaning | A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs). |
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Examples | "will they never find a cure for the common cold?" |
Synonyms | common cold |
Parts | rhinorrhea |
Narrower | head cold |
Broader | communicable disease; respiratory disease, respiratory illness, respiratory disorder |
Meaning | The absence of heat. |
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Examples | "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" |
Synonyms | coldness, low temperature |
Narrower | chill, iciness, gelidity; chilliness, coolness; frostiness; cool |
Broader | vasoconstrictor, vasoconstrictive; temperature |
Contrary | hotness, heat, high temperature |
Meaning | The sensation produced by low temperatures. |
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Examples | "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" |
Synonyms | coldness |
Broader | temperature |