cold

Meanings

Plural: colds

Noun

• a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
  • "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"
• the absence of heat
  • "the coldness made our breath visible"
  • "come in out of the cold"
  • "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
• the sensation produced by low temperatures
  • "he shivered from the cold"
  • "the cold helped clear his head"
• A condition of low temperature.
• A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
• A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
• Rheum; sleepy dust.

Adjective

• having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
  • "a cold climate"
  • "a cold room"
  • "dinner has gotten cold"
  • "cold fingers"
  • "if you are cold, turn up the heat"
  • "a cold beer"
• extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
  • "a cold unfriendly nod"
  • "a cold and unaffectionate person"
  • "a cold impersonal manner"
  • "cold logic"
  • "the concert left me cold"

Adjective Satellite

• having lost freshness through passage of time
  • "a cold trail"
  • "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
• (color) giving no sensation of warmth
  • "a cold bluish grey"
• marked by errorless familiarity
  • "had her lines cold before rehearsals started"
• lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
• so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
  • "cold fury gripped him"
• sexually unresponsive
  • "was cold to his advances"
• without compunction or human feeling
  • "in cold blood"
  • "cold-blooded killing"
• feeling or showing no enthusiasm
  • "a cold audience"
  • "a cold response to the new play"
• unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
  • "the boxer was out cold"
  • "pass out cold"
• of a seeker; far from the object sought
• lacking the warmth of life
  • "cold in his grave"

Adj

• Having a low temperature.
• Causing the air to be cold.
• Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
• Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
• Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
• Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
• Completely unprepared; without introduction.
• Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
• Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
• Cornered; done for.
• Cool, impressive.
• Not pungent or acrid.
• Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
• Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
• Not sensitive; not acute.
• Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
• Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
• Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
• Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
• Not radioactive.
• Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
• Without electrical power being supplied.

Adv

• At a low temperature.
• Without preparation.
• In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

Synonyms

algid, aloof, apprehensive, Arctic, Baltic, banal, beat, benumbed, bitter, blah, bland, bleak, bluey, bluish, bone-chilling, boreal, boring, brass monkeys, brisk, brumal, caesious, callous, candid, cerulescent, chill, chilled, chilly, clay-cold, clinical, cold, cold as a mackerel, cold as a well-digger's arse, cold as a witch's kiss, cold as a witch's teat, cold as a witch's tit, cold as charity, cold as ice, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, cold-blooded, cold-eyed, coldness, colourless, common cold, cool, coryza, crisp, dead, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, dour, drab, drafty, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, dusty, egal, equal, equitable, evenhanded, fair-minded, fairhanded, flat, flint-hearted, forbidding, freezing, frigid, frigidity, frigidness, frore, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, grim, hankty, hard, hard-boiled, hard-to-get, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, head cold, heartless, hiemal, ho-hum, hostile, humdrum, humorless, icy, impartial, imprejudicate, inclement, indifferent, indistinguishing, inhuman, insensate, insensitive, insipid, iron-hearted, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, low temperature, mild, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nesh, neuter, neutral, nippy, no fun at parties, nonaligned, nonpartial, nonpartisan, nonpersonal, objective, offish, parky, pedantic, pedestrian, plain, plodding, polar, pose, prosaic, prosy, quiet, remote, reserved, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, shivering, sleety, snoozeworthy, snowy, soporific, stale, standoffish, static, stern, stodgy, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, straightforward, strange, strict, taters, tedious, thorny, touch-me-not-ish, tough, unapproachable, unbending, unbiased, unbigoted, uncompassionate, uncool, undemonstrative, unfriendly, unimpressionable, uninterested, uninteresting, uninvolved, unmoved, unpartial, unpartisan, unprejudiced, unprepared, unprepossessed, unready, unsympathetic, unwelcoming, vanilla, vapid, wan, weaksauce, wintry, wooden

Antonyms

amiable, baking, boiling, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as ice, cool, freezing, freezing cold, friendly, frigid, glacial, heated, hot, hotness, ice-cold, icy, prepared, primed, radioactive, ready, scorching, searing, torrid, warm, welcoming

Related Words

cold snap, cool, fresh, frigidization, Jack Frost, lukewarm, one-dog night, tepid, three-dog night, wind chill

Anagrams of cold