cold
adjective
[ kəʊld ]
• of or at a low or relatively low temperature, especially when compared with the human body.
• "a freezing cold day"
Similar:
chilly,
cool,
freezing,
icy,
snowy,
icy-cold,
glacial,
wintry,
crisp,
frosty,
frigid,
bitter,
bitterly cold,
biting,
piercing,
numbing,
sharp,
raw,
polar,
arctic,
Siberian,
nippy,
brass monkeys,
parky,
Baltic,
chill,
hyperborean,
boreal,
hibernal,
hiemal,
gelid,
brumal,
• lacking affection or warmth of feeling; unemotional.
• "how cold and calculating he was"
Similar:
unfriendly,
cool,
inhospitable,
unwelcoming,
unsympathetic,
forbidding,
stony,
frigid,
frosty,
glacial,
lukewarm,
haughty,
supercilious,
disdainful,
aloof,
distant,
remote,
indifferent,
reserved,
withdrawn,
uncommunicative,
unresponsive,
unfeeling,
unemotional,
dispassionate,
passionless,
wooden,
impersonal,
formal,
stiff,
austere,
cold-blooded,
cold-hearted,
stony-hearted,
stand-offish,
offish,
gelid,
• (of the scent or trail of a hunted person or animal) no longer fresh and easy to follow.
• "the trail went cold"
• without preparation or rehearsal.
• "they went into the test cold"
cold
noun
• a low temperature; cold weather; a cold environment.
• "my teeth chattered with the cold"
• a common infection in which the mucous membrane of the nose and throat becomes inflamed, typically causing running at the nose, sneezing, and a sore throat.
• "Suzie's got a cold"
cold
adverb
• completely; entirely.
• "we stopped cold behind a turn in the staircase"
Origin:
Old English cald, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch koud and German kalt, also to Latin gelu ‘frost’.
