Another word for cold
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Adjective
Marked by a low temperature
- Trembling, as from cold or fear.
- Causing shivers; chilling.
- Tending to nip:
- Sharp or biting:
- Bitingly cold:
- Neither warm nor very cold; moderately cold:
- Giving or suggesting relief from heat:
- Marked by calm self-control:
- Cool or cold enough to cause discomfort.
- Feeling cold, often to the point of shivering.
- Unenthusiastic:
- A moderate but penetrating coldness.
- A sensation of coldness, often accompanied by shivering and pallor of the skin.
- A checking or dampening of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy:
See also:Not affected by or showing emotion
- Emotionally unaffected:
- Not easily stirred or moved in feeling.
- Involving little or no emotion; rational.
- Not changed, modified, or affected.
- Marked by lack of affectation; unpretentious or sincere.
- Devoid of emotion; impassive.
- Lacking feeling or emotion:
- Executed without feeling or emotion:
- Ectothermic.
Lacking all friendliness and warmth
- Containing or covered with ice:
- Bitterly cold; freezing:
- Unfriendly or hostile:
- Of, relating to, or produced by a glacier.
- Extremely slow, like the movement of a glacier:
- Characterized or dominated by the existence of glaciers. Used of a geologic epoch.
- Producing or characterized by frost; freezing.
- Covered with frost:
- Silvery white; hoary:
- Extremely cold.
- Lacking warmth of feeling.
- Stiff and formal in manner:
Deficient in or lacking sexual desire
- Exhibiting a lack of responsiveness.
- Lacking strong emotion or feeling:
- Unbiased or impartial; detached:
- Simple past tense and past participle of inhibit.
- Extremely cold.
- Lacking warmth of feeling.
- Stiff and formal in manner:
See also:Lacking consciousness
- Lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception; not conscious.
- Temporarily lacking consciousness.
- Occurring in the absence of conscious awareness or thought:
- Lacking sense or meaning; meaningless.
- Deficient in sense; foolish or stupid.
- Unconscious, usually as a result of physical trauma.
- Imperceptible; inappreciable:
- Very small or gradual:
- Having lost consciousness, especially temporarily; unconscious:
Idioms:See also:
Noun
Relative lack of physical warmth
- The relative lack of heat.
- The sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures.
- Limited enthusiasm or affection; coolness.
- The state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.
- A moderate but penetrating coldness.
- A sensation of coldness, often accompanied by shivering and pallor of the skin.
- A checking or dampening of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy:
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Another word for cold
Modifier
Said of the weather
- Causing a stinging sensation; nipping:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
- Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.
- Of or relating to a pole.
- Measured from or referred to a pole:
- Relating to, connected with, or located near the North Pole or South Pole.
- Extremely cold; frigid.
- A warm waterproof overshoe.
- Sharp and biting, as the cold.
- Bitingly sarcastic.
- Uncooked:
- Being in a natural condition; not processed or refined:
- Not finished, covered, or coated:
- Having a thin edge or a fine point suitable for or capable of cutting or piercing.
- Having clear form and detail:
- Terminating in an edge or a point:
- Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to an extreme degree:
- Extreme in degree, strength, or size:
- Involving or showing strain or extreme effort:
- Of, relating to, or produced by a glacier.
- Extremely slow, like the movement of a glacier:
- Characterized or dominated by the existence of glaciers. Used of a geologic epoch.
- Of or relating to the north; northern.
- Of or concerning the north wind.
- Of or relating to the forest areas of the northern North Temperate Zone, dominated by coniferous trees such as spruce, fir, and pine.
- Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
- Marked by or requiring strict adherence to rigorous standards or high principles:
- Stern or forbidding, as in manner or appearance:
- causing numbness, esp. in feeling or in mental or emotional response
- Having or being a taste that is sharp, acrid, and unpleasant.
- Causing a sharply unpleasant, painful, or stinging sensation; harsh:
- Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear:
- A moderate but penetrating coldness.
- A sensation of coldness, often accompanied by shivering and pallor of the skin.
- A checking or dampening of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy:
- Very loud; shrill:
- Fixed and intense in appearance:
- Causing pain, especially because of cold:
- Very cold; icy:
- Cold; chilly.
- Lively or energetic; brisk:
- Smart or chic in appearance:
- Snappish:
- Of, relating to, or occurring in winter.
- Capable of or designed for incising, shearing, or severing:
- Sharply penetrating; piercing:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
- Covered in sleet; full of sleet.
- Made into, covered with, or surrounded by ice.
- Very cold:
- Preserved by freezing:
- Abounding in or covered with snow:
- Subject to snow:
- Resembling or suggesting snow, especially in whiteness:
- Able or seeming to penetrate:
- Keenly perceptive or understanding; acute:
- Stormy:
- Showing no clemency; unmerciful.
- Having a fine, sharp cutting edge or point.
- Having or marked by intellectual quickness and acuity.
- Acutely sensitive:
- Marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic:
- Keen or sharp in speech or manner:
- Stimulating and invigorating:
- Tending to nip:
- Sharp or biting:
- Bitingly cold:
- Gloomy and somber:
- Providing no encouragement; depressing:
- Cold and cutting; raw:
- Belonging to or characteristic of winter; cold.
- Suggestive of winter, as in cheerlessness or coldness:
- covered with rime; frosty
- Producing or characterized by frost; freezing.
- Covered with frost:
- Silvery white; hoary:
- Extremely cold.
- Lacking warmth of feeling.
- Stiff and formal in manner:
- Containing or covered with ice:
- Bitterly cold; freezing:
- Unfriendly or hostile:
- Firm but easily broken or crumbled; brittle:
- Pleasingly firm and fresh:
- Bracing; invigorating:
- Neither warm nor very cold; moderately cold:
- Giving or suggesting relief from heat:
- Marked by calm self-control:
- Cool or cold enough to cause discomfort.
- Feeling cold, often to the point of shivering.
- Unenthusiastic:
Said of people, animals, or things
- simple past tense and past participle of refrigerate
- Extremely cold.
- Affected by hypothermia; having an abnormally low body temperature
- having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
- easily affected by cold
- lacking kindness and pity; cruel
- Neither warm nor very cold; moderately cold:
- Giving or suggesting relief from heat:
- Marked by calm self-control:
- Cool or cold enough to cause discomfort.
- Feeling cold, often to the point of shivering.
- Unenthusiastic:
- Present participle of shiver.
- The action of shivering.
- suffering from frostbite
- Difficult to bend or fold:
- Not moving or operating easily or freely; resistant:
- Lacking ease or comfort of movement; not limber:
- Disagreeably moist, sticky, and cold to the touch:
- Damp and unpleasant:
- Uneasy; apprehensive:
- Made into, covered with, or surrounded by ice.
- Very cold:
- Preserved by freezing:
Antonyms:Said of temperament
- Not interested; indifferent.
- Not anxious or apprehensive; unworried.
- Separate or apart in space.
- Far removed; remote:
- Coming from or going to a distance:
- Exhibiting a lack of responsiveness.
Noun
Absence of warmth
The outdoors of a cold season
- Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent hexagonal ice crystals that fall in soft, white flakes.
- A falling of snow; a snowstorm.
- The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception.
- The season of winter.
- A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.
- A period of weather when such deposits form.
- A cold manner or period of disaffection:
See also:An aural or respiratory congestion
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Idioms:
catch-cold
have or get cold feet
throw-cold-water-on
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