Synonyms for cold

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1. Said of the weather

   chilly, cool, crisp, icy, freezing, frigid, frosty, rimy, wintry, bleak, nippy, brisk, keen, inclement, penetrating, snowy, frozen, sleety, blasting, cutting, brumal, snappy, algid, gelid, piercing, chill, bitter, numbing, severe, boreal, stinging, glacial, intense, Siberian, sharp, raw, nipping, arctic, polar, below zero, biting; see also wintry.

   Antonyms warm, hot*, heated.

2. Said of people, animals, or things

   freezing, frozen, clammy, stiff, chilled, frostbitten, shivering, chilly, cool, coldblooded, hypothermic, ice-cold, refrigerated, in cold storage, blue from cold*, chilled to the bone*.

   Antonyms hot*, perspiring, thawed.

3. Said of temperament

   unresponsive, distant, unconcerned; see aloof, indifferent 1, unfriendly 2.

noun

1. Absence of warmth

   coldness, frozenness, chilliness, frostiness, frost, nip, bitterness, rawness, crispness, briskness, draft, frostbite, chill, shivers, coolness, shivering, goose flesh, numbness, iciness, frigidity, freeze, glaciation, refrigeration, gelidity, congelation; see also weather.

   Antonyms warmth, heat*, heat wave.

2. The outdoors of a cold season

   frost, wintertime, snow; see winter.

3. An aural or respiratory congestion

   head cold, common cold, flu, catarrh, rheum, cough, hack, sore throat, sinus trouble, cold on one's chest, bronchitis, ague, laryngitis, hay fever, grippe, influenza, rose fever, rose cold, asthma, whooping cough, pertussis, streptococcic throat, staphylococcic infection, virus, sinusitis, coryza, strep throat*, strep*, sniffles*, bug*, frog in one's throat*; see also disease.

catch cold

have<strong> or </strong>get cold feet*

(out) in the cold*

throw cold water on*