Dictionary
cold
Meaning
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- 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.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
- (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- (obsolete) 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.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kəʊld/
Cognate with Western Frisian
kâld
Cognate with Dutch
koud
Cognate with German
kalt
Cognate with Dutch
koude
Cognate with German
Kälte
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