chill

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
2. (countable, uncountable) A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
3. (countable, uncountable) An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
4. (countable, uncountable) An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
5. (countable, uncountable) The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
6. (countable, uncountable) A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
7. (countable, uncountable) Calmness; equanimity.
8. (countable, uncountable) A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
9. (countable, uncountable) A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.

Adj

1. Moderately cold or chilly.
2. Unwelcoming; not cordial.
3. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
4. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
5. (slang) Okay, not a problem.

Verb

1. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
2. (intransitive) To become cold.
3. (transitive) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
4. (intransitive) To become hard by rapid cooling.
5. (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
6. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
7. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
8. (figuratively, transitive) To discourage, depress.

Contraction

I will

Synonyms

cold

🥶

cool

🆒

coldness

cool down

frigidity

coolness

chilliness

shiver

refrigerate

freeze

gelidity

shudder

iciness

thrill

catarrh

shivering

malaria

affright

cool off

fever

🤒

frigid

quiver

frost

ague

fear

😨

low temperature

make cold

densener

startle

frostiness

frisson

tingle

frozeness

scare

😨

frighten

rigor

freezing

cold weather

be afraid

refrigeration

nip

fresh

cold wave

pall

bitterness

icy

glaciation

discourage

alarm

demoralise

Translations

enfriar

🆒

brivido

refroidir

frío

🥶

froid

🥶

frisson

esfriar

🆒

freddo

🥶

escalofrío

abkühlen

raffreddare

Kälte

Erkältung

🥶

refredar

Kühle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃɪl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: chele

Inherited from Old English: ċiele

Cognate with Dutch: kil

Inherited from Middle English: chillen

Inherited from Old English: ċilian

Cognate with Middle Dutch: killen

Cognate with Dutch: killen

In summary

From Middle English chele, chile, from Old English ċiele, ċele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kali, from Proto-Germanic *kaliz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Closely related with Dutch kil. Also akin to cool, cold, gel, and congeal, which see.

Sentences

I felt a chill down my spine .