Chilly vs Freezing - What's the difference?
chilly | freezing |
Cold enough to cause shivering; or suddenly feeling cold
Unfriendly or distant and cool
(literally) Suffering or causing frost
(by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
(uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
* 1829 , James Macauley, The natural, statistical, and civil history of the state of New York
(countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
Freezing is a synonym of chilly.
Freezing is a antonym of chilly.
As adjectives the difference between chilly and freezing
is that chilly is cold enough to cause shivering; or suddenly feeling cold while freezing is suffering or causing frost.As a noun freezing is
the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.As a verb freezing is
present participle of lang=en.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
* *freezing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (literally) frosty * (very cold) ice-cold, icyNoun
(wikipedia freezing)- Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings . The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.