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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" |
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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" |
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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?" |
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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" |
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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" |
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Related terms: | stale | |
6. | [ adjective ] without compunction or human feeling | |
Synonyms: | inhuman cold-blooded insensate | |
Examples: | "in cold blood" "cold-blooded killing" "insensate destruction" |
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Related terms: | inhumane | |
7. | [ adjective ] (color) giving no sensation of warmth | |
Examples: | "a cold bluish gray" |
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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" |
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Related terms: | dead | |
10. | [ adjective ] without compunction or human feeling | |
Synonyms: | inhuman cold-blooded insensate | |
Examples: | "in cold blood" "cold-blooded killing" "insensate destruction" |
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Related terms: | inhumane | |
11. | [ adjective ] so intense as to be almost uncontrollable | |
Examples: | "cold fury gripped him" |
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Related terms: | intense | |
12. | [ adjective ] (sexuality) sexually unresponsive | |
Synonyms: | frigid | |
Examples: | "was cold to his advances" "a frigid woman" |
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Related terms: | unloving | |
13. | [ adjective ] no longer new; uninteresting | |
Synonyms: | stale | |
Examples: | "cold (or stale) news" |
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Related terms: | old | |
14. | [ adjective ] marked by errorless familiarity | |
Examples: | "had her lines cold before rehearsals started" |
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Related terms: | perfect | |
15. | [ adjective ] feeling or showing no enthusiasm | |
Synonyms: | cool | |
Examples: | "a cold audience" "a cold response to the new play" |
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Related terms: | unenthusiastic | |
16. | [ adjective ] unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication | |
Examples: | "the boxer was out cold" "pass out cold" |
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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" |
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Related terms: | temperature | |
Similar spelling: |
could cowled cooled coiled collude colloid collide Collado collet cool_it Collett collate colt |