cold
1. [ adjective ] used of physical coldness; having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
Examples:

"a cold climate" "a cold room" "dinner has gotten cold" "cold fingers" "a cold beer"

Related terms: hot chilled arctic refrigerated shivery unheated stone-cold crisp acold frore frosted bleak refrigerant heatless chilled algid frigorific cool frozen temperature
2. [ adjective ] extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
Examples:

"a cold unfriendly nod" "a cold and unaffectionate person" "a cold impersonal manner" "cold logic" "the concert left me cold"

Related terms: hot frigid emotionless cool passionless emotionality
3. [ noun ] (medicine) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
Synonyms: common_cold
Examples:

"will they never find a cure for the common cold?"

Related terms: respiratory_disease communicable_disease head_cold rhinorrhea
4. [ noun ] (pharmacology) the absence of heat
Synonyms: low_temperature coldness
Examples:

"the coldness made our breath visible" "come in out of the cold" "cold is a vasoconstrictor"

Related terms: hotness temperature vasoconstrictor chill chilliness cool frostiness
5. [ adjective ] having lost freshness through passage of time
Examples:

"a cold trail" "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

Related terms: stale
6. [ adjective ] without compunction or human feeling
Synonyms: inhuman cold-blooded insensate
Examples:

"in cold blood" "cold-blooded killing" "insensate destruction"

Related terms: inhumane
7. [ adjective ] (color) giving no sensation of warmth
Examples:

"a cold bluish gray"

Related terms: cool
8. [ adjective ] of a seeker; far from the object sought
Related terms: far
9. [ adjective ] lacking the warmth of life
Examples:

"cold in his grave"

Related terms: dead
10. [ adjective ] without compunction or human feeling
Synonyms: inhuman cold-blooded insensate
Examples:

"in cold blood" "cold-blooded killing" "insensate destruction"

Related terms: inhumane
11. [ adjective ] so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
Examples:

"cold fury gripped him"

Related terms: intense
12. [ adjective ] (sexuality) sexually unresponsive
Synonyms: frigid
Examples:

"was cold to his advances" "a frigid woman"

Related terms: unloving
13. [ adjective ] no longer new; uninteresting
Synonyms: stale
Examples:

"cold (or stale) news"

Related terms: old
14. [ adjective ] marked by errorless familiarity
Examples:

"had her lines cold before rehearsals started"

Related terms: perfect
15. [ adjective ] feeling or showing no enthusiasm
Synonyms: cool
Examples:

"a cold audience" "a cold response to the new play"

Related terms: unenthusiastic
16. [ adjective ] unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
Examples:

"the boxer was out cold" "pass out cold"

Related terms: unconscious
17. [ noun ] (psychology) the sensation produced by low temperatures
Synonyms: coldness
Examples:

"he shivered from the cold" "the cold helped clear his head"

Related terms: temperature
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