cold

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Meaning

1. Having a low temperature.
2. Causing the air to be cold.
3. Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
4. Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
5. Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
6. Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
7. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
8. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
9. Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
10. Cornered; done for.
11. (slang) Cool, impressive.
12. (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
13. (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
14. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
15. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
16. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
17. Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
18. Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
19. (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
20. (informal) Not radioactive.
21. Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
22. Without electrical power being supplied.

cool

cold weather

low temperature

very cold

be cold

cold air

coughing fit

frozeness

not hot

become cool

bitterly cold

cold season

coolth

feel cold

frigorific

get cold

husky voice

it rains

old-hat

shiver with cold

being fearful

feeling chilly

cloudy weather

feeling cold

be chilly

as wind

brass monkey

overaged

veet

to be

fresh cold

cold blooded

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəʊld/

From Middle English cold, from Old English, specifically Anglian 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 kald (“cold”), Swedish kall (“cold”).