COLD


Meaning of COLD in English

adjective

1.

marked by a deficiency of warmth

a cold day

Synonyms: arctic, chill, chillsome, chilly, cool, freezing, frigid, frore, frosty, gelid, glacial, icy, nippy, shivery

Related Word: biting, bleak, chilling, cutting, nipping, polar, raw, sharp; frozen, iced, wintry; bracing, brisk, crisp, snappy

Contrasted words: genial, mild

Antonyms: warm

2.

lacking cordiality or emotional warmth

a cold greeting

Synonyms: chill, emotionless, frigid, glacial, icy, indifferent, unemotional

Related Word: unenthusiastic, unresponsive, unsympathetic

Contrasted words: cordial, friendly, genial, hearty, warm; empathic, sympathetic

3.

Synonyms: matter-of-fact 3, cold-blooded, emotionless, impersonal, unimpassioned

4.

Synonyms: frigid 3, inhibited, passionless, undersexed, unresponsive

Antonyms: hot

5.

Synonyms: gloomy , 3, black, bleak, cheerless, dismal, dispiriting, drear, joyless, oppressive, somber

6.

Synonyms: dead 1, asleep, deceased, defunct, departed, exanimate, extinct, inanimate, late, lifeless

7.

Synonyms: insensible 2, comatose, inconscious, senseless, unconscious

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