cold
(adjective) lacking the warmth of life; “cold in his grave”
cold
(adjective) of a seeker; far from the object sought
cold
(adjective) unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; “the boxer was out cold”; “pass out cold”
cold
(adjective) feeling or showing no enthusiasm; “a cold audience”; “a cold response to the new play”
cold
(adjective) having lost freshness through passage of time; “a cold trail”; “dogs attempting to catch a cold scent”
cold
(adjective) having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; “a cold climate”; “a cold room”; “dinner has gotten cold”; “cold fingers”; “if you are cold, turn up the heat”; “a cold beer”
cold
(adjective) extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion; “a cold unfriendly nod”; “a cold and unaffectionate person”; “a cold impersonal manner”; “cold logic”; “the concert left me cold”
cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
(adjective) without compunction or human feeling; “in cold blood”; “cold-blooded killing”; “insensate destruction”
cold, frigid
(adjective) sexually unresponsive; “was cold to his advances”; “a frigid woman”
cold
(adjective) so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; “cold fury gripped him”
cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten
(adjective) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; “moth-eaten theories about race”; “stale news”
cold
(adjective) marked by errorless familiarity; “had her lines cold before rehearsals started”
cold
(adjective) (color) giving no sensation of warmth; “a cold bluish grey”
coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness
(noun) the absence of heat; “the coldness made our breath visible”; “come in out of the cold”; “cold is a vasoconstrictor”
cold, coldness
(noun) the sensation produced by low temperatures; “he shivered from the cold”; “the cold helped clear his head”
cold, common cold
(noun) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); “will they never find a cure for the common cold?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cold (comparative colder, superlative coldest)
(of a thing) Having a low temperature.
(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
Completely unprepared; without introduction.
Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
(usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
(usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
(obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
(obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
(obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
(painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
(databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
(informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless
• (of a thing, having a low temperature): chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool
• (of the weather): (UK) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters
• (of a person or animal)
• (unfriendly): aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming
• (unprepared): unprepared, unready
• See also cold
• (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
cold (plural colds)
A condition of low temperature.
(with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
(slang) rheum, sleepy dust
• (low temperature): coldness
• (illness): common cold, coryza, head cold, pose
• freeze, frost
cold (comparative more cold, superlative most cold)
While at low temperature.
Without preparation.
With finality.
(slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
• clod
Source: Wiktionary
Cold, a. [Compar. Colder; superl. Coldest.] Etym: [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS. kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall, Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala to freeze. Cf. Cool, a., Chill, n.]
1. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis." Milton.
2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
3. Not pungent or acrid. "Cold plants." Bacon
4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. A cold and unconcerned spectator. T. Burnet. No cold relation is a zealous citizen. Burke.
5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort." Shak.
6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! B. Jonson. The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene. Addison.
7. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
8. Not sensitive; not acute. Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose. Shak.
9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
10. (Paint.)
Definition: Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8. Cold abscess. See under Abscess.
– Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2. Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8.
– Cold chill, an ague fit. Wright.
– Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. Weale.
– Cold cream. See under Cream.
– Cold slaw. See Cole slaw.
– In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately. He was slain in cold blood after thefight was over. Sir W. Scott. To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.
Syn.
– Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.
Cold, n.
1. The relative absence of heat or warmth.
2. The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness. When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart. Dryden.
3. (Med.)
Definition: A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh. Cold sore (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever.
– To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.] Cold, v. i.
Definition: To become cold. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 November 2024
(noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
