cold

Plural: colds

Noun

• A common viral infection causing nasal congestion and sneezing.
• 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 temperature; lacking warmth or friendliness.
• 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.

Examples

• a cold scent
• A cold wind whistled through the trees.
• After one more beer he passed out cold.
• Come in, out of the cold.
• Criminal interrogation. Initially they will dream up explanations faster than you could ever do so, but when they become fatigued, often they will acknowledge that you have them cold.
• Even with a COLD, she managed to play a fantastic game of Words With Friends.
• He was assigned cold calls for the first three months.
• He's a nice guy, but the cold facts say we should fire him.
• His opponent’s COLD gaze suggested no mercy would be given in this Scrabble match.
• I can't believe she said that...that was cold!
• I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week
• I knocked him out cold.
• Keep that list in front of you, or memorize it cold.
• Let's look at this tomorrow with a cold head.
• Practice your music scales until you know them cold.
• Rehearse your lines until you have them down cold.
• She shot me a cold glance before turning her back.
• She was so cold she was shivering.
• The cold truth is that states rarely undertake military action unless their national interests are at stake.
• The forecast is that it will be very cold today.
• The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.
• The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
• The steel was processed cold.
• Try both these maneuvers until you have them cold and can do them in the dark without thinking.
• With that receipt, we have them cold for fraud.
• You're cold … getting warmer … hot! You've found it!

Synonyms

cold-blooded, coldness, common cold, dusty, frigid, frigidity, frigidness, inhuman, insensate, low temperature, moth-eaten, stale, Arctic, Baltic, algid, aloof, apprehensive, 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-eyed, colourless, cool, coryza, crisp, dead, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, dour, drab, drafty, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, egal, equal, equitable, evenhanded, fair-minded, fairhanded, flat, flint-hearted, forbidding, freezing, 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, insensitive, insipid, iron-hearted, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, mild, monotonous, 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, 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

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

Related Words

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

Anagrams of cold