| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chilly, freezing |
Synonyms: |
Siberian, algid, arctic, below freezing, below zero, benumbed, biting, bitter, blasting, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilled, cool, crisp, cutting, frigid, frore, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, have goose bumps, hawkish, hiemal, hyperborean, icebox, iced, icy, inclement, intense, keen, nipping, nippy, numbed, numbing, one-dog night, penetrating, piercing, polar, raw, rimy, severe, sharp, shivery, sleety, snappy, snowy, stinging, two-dog night, wintry |
Antonyms: |
hot, warm |
| Main Entry: | cool |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold, nippy |
Synonyms: |
air-conditioned, algid, arctic, biting, chill, chilled, chilling, chilly, coldish, frigid, frore, frosty, gelid, hawkish, nipping, refreshing, refrigerated, shivery, snappy, wintry |
Antonyms: |
hot, temperate, warm |
| Main Entry: | ice-cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very cold |
Synonyms: |
Siberian, algid, arctic, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, brumal, chill, cutting, freezing, frozen, gelid, glacial, icy, piercing, polar, raw, sub-zero, wintry |
Antonyms: |
burning hot, hot, warm |
| Main Entry: | shivery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold |
Synonyms: |
Siberian, algid, arctic, below freezing, below zero, benumbed, biting, bitter, blasting, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill*, chilled, chilly, cool*, crisp, cutting, frigid, frore, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, have goose bumps, hawkish, hiemal, hyperborean, icebox, iced, icy*, inclement, intense, keen, nipping, nippy, numbed, numbing, one-dog night, penetrating, piercing, polar, raw, rimy, severe, sharp, sleety, snappy, snowy, stinging, two-dog night, wintry |
| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
cold, aguish, algefacient, algid, algific, arctic, biting, bitter, bleak, boreal, brumal, chelmaphilic, chill, chilly, clay-cold, clumpst, cold as Christmas, cold as a charity, cold as a frog, cold as a stone, cold as iron, cold as marble, cool, cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard, cooled, cooling, cutting, ectothermic, fireproof, freezing, fresh, frigid, frigolabile, frigorific, frore, frost-bitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, frosty, frozen out, gelid, glacial, haematocryal, hibernal, hyemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-bound, iced, icing, icy, inclement, incombustible, isocheimenal, keen, lukewarm, marmoreal, nipped, nipping, nival, niveous, piercing, pinching, poikilothermal, raw, shivering, siberian, starved, subboreal, tepid, unflammable, uninflammable, unthawed, unwarmed, wintry
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| Concept: | Cold. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
cold, coldness; frigidity, inclemency, fresco., winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla., [forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U. S.], lolly [N.Am.]; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; névé, serac; pruina., [Sensation of cold] chilliness; chill; shivering; goose skin, rigor, horripilation, chattering of teeth.
-verbs
be cold; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder, quiver; perish with cold; chill (render cold); horripilate.
-adjectives
cold, cool; chill, chilly; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved (made cold); shivering; aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped., cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard., icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal; hyperborean, hyperboreal; icebound; frozen out., unwarmed, unthawed; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic.
-adverbs
coldly, bitterly; pierre fendre.
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Antonyms: |
heat |
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