cold
About 67.63 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having a low temperature.
A cold wind whistled through the trees.
- adjective Causing the air to be cold.
The forecast is that it will be very cold today.
- adjective Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
She was so cold she was shivering.
- adjective Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
She shot me a cold glance before turning her back.
- adjective Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- adjective Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
Let's look at this tomorrow with a cold head.
- adjective Completely unprepared; without introduction.
He was assigned cold calls for the first three months.
- adjective Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
I knocked him out cold.
Similar words
acold parky frigid frore ice-cold stone-cold chilled frosty gelid freezing
Often followed by
war and water weather air in as or spring
Word family
colder coldest coldish coldly coldness coldnesses colds
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