cold
adjEtymology
From Middle English cold, from Anglian Old English cald. The West Saxon form, ċeald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalaną (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Cognates Cognate with Scots cald, cauld (“cold”), Saterland Frisian koold (“cold”), West Frisian kâld (“cold”), Dutch koud (“cold”), Low German kold, koolt, koold (“cold”), German kalt (“cold”), Danish kold (“cold”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kald (“cold”), Swedish kall (“cold”).
Definitions
Having a low temperature.
- A cold wind whistled through the trees.
- As cold waters to a thirstie soule: so is good newes from a farre countrey.
- Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!
Causing the air to be cold.
- The forecast is that it will be very cold today.
Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- She was so cold she was shivering.
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Unfriendly
Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- She shot me a cold glance before turning her back.
- At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.
Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor An inner trouble I behold, A spectral doubt which makes me cold, That I shall be thy mate no more, […]
Dispassionate
Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- Let's look at this tomorrow with a cold head.
- He's a nice guy, but the cold facts say we should fire him.
- The cold truth is that states rarely undertake military action unless their national interests are at stake.
Completely unprepared
Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- He was assigned cold calls for the first three months.
- The one thing considered the brass ring in selling insurance was making a sale on a cold canvass. Cold canvassing was the most dreaded exercise for most insurance salesmen.
Unconscious or deeply asleep
Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- I knocked him out cold.
- After one more beer he passed out cold.
- Before Mr Big could utter another word, Dad’s false leg crashed down through the window… …and the wooden foot bashed Mr Big hard on the head. The crime boss collapsed to the floor, out cold.
Perfectly, exactly, completely
Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Practice your music scales until you know them cold.
- Try both these maneuvers until you have them cold and can do them in the dark without thinking.
- Rehearse your lines until you have them down cold.
Cornered
Cornered; done for.
- With that receipt, we have them cold for fraud.
- 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.
Cool, impressive.
- Lowkey she so cold for that
- Indians see this fit and think it's the coldest thing ever
Not pungent or acrid.
- cold plants
Unexciting
Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
- What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
- The jest grows cold[…]when it comes on in a second scene.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- a cold scent
Not sensitive
Not sensitive; not acute.
- Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.
Distant
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- You're cold … getting warmer … hot! You've found it!
Having a bluish effect
Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
Without compassion
Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- I can't believe she said that...that was cold!
- River Song: (upon seeing the still-living Doctor, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death) This is cold. Even by your standards, this is cold.
- "At the risk of sounding cold though, I'm glad he's gone. His abandonment left me in Aunt Fara's custody, and that's honestly the best thing he's ever done for me."
Not radioactive.
- "That's right," Jackson said. "The Old Man will be pleased to welcome you." There was eagerness in his reedy voice. "What do you say? We'll take care of you. Feed you, bring you cold plants and animals. For a week maybe?"
Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
Without electrical power being supplied.
- Therefore, to avoid unnecessary delay in the trouble-shooting procedure, it is good practice to make a resistance check on a "cold" circuit (before applying power), to determine whether resistance values are normal.
A condition of low temperature.
- Come in, out of the cold.
A harsh place
A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.
A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal…
A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week
Rheum
Rheum; sleepy dust.
- Who the fuck is this, pagin' me at 5:46 in the morning? / crack of dawn and now I'm yawnin' / wipe the cold out my eye, see who's this pagin' me and why
- But I remember this, moms would lick her finger tips / to wipe the cold out my eye before school with her spit
At a low temperature.
- The steel was processed cold.
Without preparation.
- The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
- Two weeks after it closed, he started rehearsals for Cheer Up, a new play by Mary Roberts Rinehart booked into the Harris Theatre. It was to open cold without any out-of-town tryout under the direction of a young Cecil B. DeMille […]
In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
- Now Little Bo Peep cold lost her sheep / And Rip van Winkle fell the hell asleep
Acronym of computer output to laser disc.
The neighborhood
- synonymalgid
- synonymArctic
- synonymBaltic
- synonymboreal
- synonymbrass monkeys
- synonymbrumal
- synonymchill
- synonymchilled
- synonymchilly
- synonymclay-cold
- synonymcold
- synonymcold as a mackerel
- antonymhot
- antonymwarm
- neighborcold snap
- neighborfrigidization
- neighborJack Frost
- neighborone-dog night
- neighborshivering
- neighborthree-dog night
- neighborwind chill
- neighborbrisk
- neighborcool
- neighborcrisp
- neighbordrafty
- neighborbenumbed
Derived
acold, a cold day in July, anticold, blow hot and cold, bright lights and cold steel cold cold steel and bright lights, bring someone out in a cold sweat, bust ass cold, clap cold, clay-cold, cold abscess, cold agglutinin disease, cold antibody, cold approach, cold-aridiphilous, cold as a mackerel, cold as a wagon tire, cold as a well-digger's arse, cold as a witch's kiss, cold as balls, cold as charity, cold as death, Cold Ash, Cold Ashton, cold as ice, cold as the grave, cold-avoidant cold cold avoidant, cold-back cold cold back, coldbeer, cold biscuit, cold blob, cold blood, cold-blooded, Cold Blow, cold boot, cold boot attack, cold-brew coffee, cold brew coffee cold cold brew, cold call, cold camera, cold cap · +192 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cold. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cold. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at cold
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA