What is the difference between chilly and cold?
chilly | cold | Synonyms |
Cold enough to cause shivering; or suddenly feeling cold
Unfriendly or distant and cool
(label) Having a low temperature.
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(label) Causing the air to be cold.
(label) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
* 2011 April 23, (Doctor Who), series 6, episode 1, (The Impossible Astronaut):
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Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
Completely unprepared; without introduction.
Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
(label) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
(label) Cornered, done for.
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(label) Not pungent or acrid.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
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Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
(label) Not sensitive; not acute.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm'' and ''hot .
(label) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
A condition of low temperature.
(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
While at low temperature.
Without preparation.
With finality.
Cold is a synonym of chilly.
Cold is a antonym of chilly.
As adjectives the difference between chilly and cold
is that chilly is cold enough to cause shivering; or suddenly feeling cold while cold is having a low temperature.As a noun cold is
a condition of low temperature.As an adverb cold is
while at low temperature.chilly
English
Adjective
(er)- I'm getting rather chilly over here - could you shut the window please?
- ''She gave me a chilly look when I suggested it
Synonyms
* See alsoReferences
* *cold
English
Adjective
(er)- RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold'. Even by your standards, this is ' cold .
- cold plants
- What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
- The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.
- Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.
Synonyms
* chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool * (of the weather) (qualifier) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters * (of a person or animal) * (unfriendly) aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming * (unprepared) unprepared, unready * See alsoAntonyms
* (having a low temperature) baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm * (of the weather) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (of a person or animal) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (unfriendly) amiable, friendly, welcoming * (unprepared) prepared, primed, readyDerived terms
* as cold as charity * as cold as ice, cold as ice * as cold as the grave, cold as the grave * blow hot and cold * brass monkeys * bring someone out in a cold sweat * coldness * cold-blooded * cold call * cold case * cold cash * cold comfort * cold cream * cold cuts * cold-eyed * cold feet/get cold feet * cold fish * cold front * * cold-hearted * cold one * cold-read * cold reading * cold snap * cold start * cold storage * cold store * cold sweat * cold turkey * cold war * cold-weld * come in from the cold * freezing cold * get cold feet * give someone the cold shoulder * in cold blood * in the cold light of day * leave someone cold * leave someone out in the cold * make someone's blood run cold * stone-cold * throw cold water onNoun
(en noun)- Come in, out of the cold .
- I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.
Synonyms
* (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head coldDerived terms
* bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head coldCoordinate terms
* freeze, frostAdverb
(en adverb)- ''The steel was processed cold .
- The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
- I knocked him out cold .