cold English
Adjective
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(label) Having a low temperature.
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(label) Causing the air to be cold.
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(label) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
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Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
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* 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 .
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Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
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Completely unprepared; without introduction.
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Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
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(label) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
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(label) Cornered, done for.
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(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.
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(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 .
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(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
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* 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
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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 .
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Anagrams
* clod
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