Cold vs Deadly - What's the difference?

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Cold is a related term of deadly.

As adjectives the difference between cold and deadly

is that cold is (label) having a low temperature while deadly is (lb) subject to death; mortal.

As adverbs the difference between cold and deadly

is that cold is while at low temperature while deadly is (obsolete) fatally, mortally.

As a noun cold

is a condition of low temperature.

cold

English

Adjective

(er)

(label) Having a low temperature.

(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):

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 .

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.

(label) Not pungent or acrid.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

cold plants

(label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

(label) Not sensitive; not acute.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.

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.

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 also

Antonyms

* (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, ready

Derived 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 on

Noun

(en noun)

A condition of low temperature.

Come in, out of the cold .

(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.

Synonyms

* (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head cold

Derived terms

* bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head cold

Coordinate terms

* freeze, frost

Adverb

(en adverb)

While at low temperature.

''The steel was processed cold .

Without preparation.

The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.

With finality.

I knocked him out cold .

Statistics

Anagrams

* clod

deadly

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

(lb) Subject to death; mortal.

*:And whan he cam to the sacrament of the masse / and had done / anone he called Galahad and sayd to hym come forthe the seruaunt of Ihesu cryst and thou shalt see that thou hast moche desyred to see / & thenne he beganne to tremble ryght hard / whan the dedely flesshe beganne to beholde the spyrytuel thynges

*Wyclif Bible, (w) i. 23

*:The image of a deadly man.

Causing death; lethal.

Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly .

(lb) Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).

*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

(lb) Very boring.

*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly , idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,!”

(lb) Excellent, awesome, cool.

Derived terms

* deadly sin

Adverb

(en adverb)

(obsolete) Fatally, mortally.

*, Folio Society, 2006, p.16:

perceiving himselfe deadly wounded by a shot received in his body, being by his men perswaded to come off and retire himselfe from out the throng, answered, he would not now so neere his end, begin to turn his face from his enemie

In a way which suggests death.

Her face suddenly became deadly white.

Extremely.

deadly weary — Orrery.

so deadly cunning a man — Arbuthnot.