chill ‧ y /ˈtʃɪli/ BrE AmE adjective
1 . chilly weather or places are cold enough to make you feel uncomfortable
chilly day/night/evening etc
a chilly November morning
chilly wind/breeze/air etc
Getting chilly, isn’t it?
The bathroom’s a bit chilly.
2 . if you feel chilly, you feel uncomfortably cold
3 . unfriendly SYN frosty :
The speech met with a chilly reception.
—chilliness noun [singular, uncountable]
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THESAURUS
■ weather
▪ cold used especially when you feel uncomfortable:
It gets very cold here in the winter.
▪ cool a little cold, often in a way that feels comfortable:
It’s very hot in the day, but cooler at night.
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a nice cool breeze
▪ chilly a little cold, but not very cold, in a way that feels rather uncomfortable:
a chilly autumn day
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It’s a bit chilly.
▪ freezing (cold) spoken very cold and very uncomfortable:
It’s freezing outside.
▪ bitterly cold very cold and very uncomfortable:
It can be bitterly cold in the mountains.
▪ icy (cold) very cold, especially when the temperature is below zero:
The wind was icy cold.
▪ crisp cold, dry, and clear, in a way that seems pleasant:
I love these crisp autumn mornings.
▪ frosty in frosty weather, the ground is covered in a frozen white powder:
It was a bright frosty morning.
▪ arctic extremely cold and unpleasant, with snow and ice:
He would not survive for long in the arctic conditions.
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arctic weather