Another word for cold
cold
modif.
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.
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.
Said of temperament
unresponsive, distant, unconcerned; see aloof, indifferent 1, unfriendly 2.
cold
n.
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.
The outdoors of a cold season
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.
come down with a cold, become ill, take cold; see sicken 1.
dishearten, squelch, dampen; see discourage 1.
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Another word for cold
Marked by a low temperature:
chill, chilly, cool, nippy, shivery. See hotNot affected by or showing emotion:
cold-blooded, emotionless, unaffected, unemotional, unmoved. See attitude, hotLacking all friendliness and warmth:
frigid, frosty, glacial, icy. See attitude, hotDeficient in or lacking sexual desire:
ardorless, frigid, inhibited, passionless, unresponsive. See sexLacking consciousness:
insensible, senseless, unconscious. Idioms: out cold, out like a light. See awareness
Relative lack of physical warmth:
chill, chilliness, coldness, coolness. See hot
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