| clammy | | |
| adj. | 1. clammy, dank | unpleasantly cool and humid.; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" |
| ~ wet | covered or soaked with a liquid such as water.; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather" |
| cold | | |
| n. (state) | 1. cold, common cold | a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs).; "will they never find a cure for the common cold?" |
| ~ communicable disease | a disease that can be communicated from one person to another. |
| ~ respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness | a disease affecting the respiratory system. |
| ~ head cold | a common cold affecting the nasal passages and resulting in congestion and sneezing and headache. |
| ~ rhinorrhea | persistent watery mucus discharge from the nose (as in the common cold). |
| n. (attribute) | 2. cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature | the absence of heat.; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" |
| ~ pressor, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor | any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure. |
| ~ temperature | the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity). |
| ~ chill, gelidity, iciness | coldness due to a cold environment. |
| ~ chilliness, coolness, nip | the property of being moderately cold.; "the chilliness of early morning" |
| ~ frostiness | coldness as evidenced by frost. |
| ~ cool | the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature.; "the cool of early morning" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. cold, coldness | the sensation produced by low temperatures.; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" |
| ~ temperature | the somatic sensation of cold or heat. |
| adj. | 4. cold | having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration.; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer" |
| ~ frozen | turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold.; "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; "children skating on a frozen brook" |
| ~ acold | of persons; feeling cold.; "Poor Tom's acold" |
| ~ algid | chilly.; "a person who is algid is marked by prostration and has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure" |
| ~ gelid, arctic, frigid, icy, glacial, polar | extremely cold.; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" |
| ~ cutting, bleak, raw | unpleasantly cold and damp.; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" |
| ~ parky, chilly | appreciably or disagreeably cold. |
| ~ nipping, nippy, crisp, frosty, snappy | pleasantly cold and invigorating.; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather" |
| ~ frigorific | causing cold; cooling or chilling. |
| ~ frore | very cold.; "whatever the evenings be--frosty and frore or warm and wet" |
| ~ rimed, rimy, frosty | covered with frost.; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost" |
| ~ heatless | without generating heat.; "luminescent organisms emit heatless light" |
| ~ ice-cold | as cold as ice. |
| ~ refrigerant, refrigerating | causing cooling or freezing.; "a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide" |
| ~ refrigerated | made or kept cold by refrigeration.; "keep the milk refrigerated"; "a refrigerated truck" |
| ~ shivery | cold enough to cause shivers.; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather" |
| ~ stone-cold | completely cold.; "by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold" |
| ~ unheated, unwarmed | not having been heated or warmed.; "an unheated room"; "unwarmed rolls" |
| ~ cool | neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat.; "a cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool summer dresses"; "cool drinks"; "a cool breeze" |
| adj. | 5. cold | extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion.; "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold" |
| ~ emotionless, passionless | unmoved by feeling.; "he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served"; "this passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine" |
| ~ frosty, icy, glacial, wintry, frigid, frozen | devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain.; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" |
| ~ passionless | not passionate.; "passionless observation of human nature" |
| ~ cool | psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike.; "relations were cool and polite"; "a cool reception"; "cool to the idea of higher taxes" |
| adj. | 6. cold | having lost freshness through passage of time.; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent" |
| ~ stale | lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age.; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" |
| adj. | 7. cold | (color) giving no sensation of warmth.; "a cold bluish grey" |
| ~ cool | (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets.; "cool greens and blues and violets" |
| adj. | 8. cold | marked by errorless familiarity.; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started" |
| ~ perfect | being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish.; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day" |
| adj. | 9. cold, dusty, moth-eaten, stale | lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new.; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news" |
| ~ unoriginal | not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual.; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern" |
| adj. | 10. cold | so intense as to be almost uncontrollable.; "cold fury gripped him" |
| ~ intense | possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree.; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense" |
| adj. | 11. cold, frigid | sexually unresponsive.; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman" |
| ~ unloving | not giving or reciprocating affection. |
| adj. | 12. cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate | without compunction or human feeling.; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" |
| ~ inhumane | lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion.; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used" |
| adj. | 13. cold | feeling or showing no enthusiasm.; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play" |
| ~ unenthusiastic | not enthusiastic; lacking excitement or ardor.; "an unenthusiastic performance by the orchestra"; "unenthusiastic applause" |
| adj. | 14. cold | unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication.; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold" |
| ~ unconscious | not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead.; "lay unconscious on the floor" |
| adj. | 15. cold | of a seeker; far from the object sought. |
| ~ far | located at a great distance in time or space or degree.; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" |
| adj. | 16. cold | lacking the warmth of life.; "cold in his grave" |
| ~ dead | no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin" |
| frigid | | |
| adj. | 1. arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar | extremely cold.; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" |
| ~ cold | having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration.; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer" |
| adj. | 2. frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry | devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain.; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" |
| ~ cold | extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion.; "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold" |
| icy | | |
| adj. | 1. icy | covered with or containing or consisting of ice.; "icy northern waters" |
| ~ frozen | turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold.; "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; "children skating on a frozen brook" |
| adj. | 2. icy | shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice.; "roads and trees glazed with an icy film" |
| ~ shiny, glazed | having a shiny surface or coating.; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed doughnuts" |
| indifferent | | |
| adj. | 1. apathetic, indifferent | marked by a lack of interest.; "an apathetic audience"; "the universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply indifferent" |
| ~ uninterested | not having or showing interest.; "an uninterested spectator" |
| adj. | 2. indifferent | showing no care or concern in attitude or action.; "indifferent to the sufferings of others"; "indifferent to her plea" |
| ~ unconcerned | lacking in interest or care or feeling.; "the average American...is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal and economic and governmental actions...beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control"; "blithely unconcerned about his friend's plight" |
| adj. | 3. deaf, indifferent | (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed.; "deaf to her warnings" |
| ~ heedless, unheeding | marked by or paying little heed or attention.; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying" |
| adj. | 4. immaterial, indifferent | (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other.; "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)"; "what others think is altogether indifferent to him" |
| ~ unimportant | not important.; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant" |
| adj. | 5. indifferent | fairly poor to not very good.; "has an indifferent singing voice"; "has indifferent qualifications for the job" |
| ~ inferior | of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
| adj. | 6. indifferent, inert, neutral | having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive.; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction" |
| ~ chemical science, chemistry | the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions. |
| ~ unreactive | (chemistry) not reacting chemically. |
| adj. | 7. indifferent | marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another.; "indifferent about which book you would give them"; "was indifferent to their acceptance or rejection of her invitation" |
| ~ impartial | showing lack of favoritism.; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge" |
| adj. | 8. indifferent, unbiased, unbiassed | characterized by a lack of partiality.; "a properly indifferent jury"; "an unbiasgoted account of her family problems" |
| ~ impartial | showing lack of favoritism.; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge" |
| adj. | 9. indifferent, so-so | being neither good nor bad.; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French" |
| ~ ordinary | not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree.; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine" |
| adj. | 10. indifferent | neither too great nor too little.; "a couple of indifferent hills to climb" |
| ~ moderate | being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme.; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart" |
| cool | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. cool | the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature.; "the cool of early morning" |
| ~ low temperature, cold, frigidity, frigidness, coldness | the absence of heat.; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froid | great coolness and composure under strain.; "keep your cool" |
| ~ calm, calmness, composure, equanimity | steadiness of mind under stress.; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity" |
| v. (change) | 3. chill, cool, cool down | make cool or cooler.; "Chill the food" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ cool, chill, cool down | loose heat.; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm" |
| ~ quench | cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid.; "quench steel" |
| ~ ice | put ice on or put on ice.; "Ice your sprained limbs" |
| ~ refrigerate | cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator.; "refrigerate this medicine" |
| v. (change) | 4. chill, cool, cool down | loose heat.; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| v. (change) | 5. cool, cool down, cool off | lose intensity.; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| adj. | 6. cool | neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat.; "a cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool summer dresses"; "cool drinks"; "a cool breeze" |
| ~ cold | having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration.; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer" |
| ~ air-conditioned | cooled by air conditioning. |
| ~ air-cooled | cooled by a flow of air.; "an air-cooled engine" |
| ~ caller | providing coolness.; "a cooling breeze"; "`caller' is a Scottish term as in `a caller breeze'" |
| ~ precooled | cooled in advance. |
| ~ water-cooled | kept cool or designed to be kept cool by means of water especially circulating water.; "a water-cooled engine" |
| adj. | 7. cool, coolheaded, nerveless | marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional.; "play it cool"; "keep cool"; "stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament" |
| ~ composed | serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress.; "the performer seemed completely composed as she stepped onto the stage"; "I felt calm and more composed than I had in a long time" |
| adj. | 8. cool | (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets.; "cool greens and blues and violets" |
| ~ cold | (color) giving no sensation of warmth.; "a cold bluish grey" |
| adj. | 9. cool | psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike.; "relations were cool and polite"; "a cool reception"; "cool to the idea of higher taxes" |
| ~ unagitated | not agitated or disturbed emotionally. |
| ~ unemotional | unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion. |
| ~ unfriendly | not disposed to friendship or friendliness.; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take" |
| ~ cold | extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion.; "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold" |
| ~ unresponsive | aloof or indifferent.; "was unresponsive to her passionate advances" |
| adj. | 10. cool | (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification.; "a cool million bucks" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ unqualified | not limited or restricted.; "an unqualified denial" |
| adj. | 11. cool | fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept.; "he's a cool dude"; "that's cool"; "Mary's dress is really cool"; "it's not cool to arrive at a party too early" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ fashionable, stylish | being or in accordance with current social fashions.; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe" |
| half-hearted | | |
| adj. | 1. half-hearted, halfhearted, lukewarm, tepid | feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm.; "a halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate" |
| ~ unenthusiastic | not enthusiastic; lacking excitement or ardor.; "an unenthusiastic performance by the orchestra"; "unenthusiastic applause" |
| nonchalant | | |
| adj. | 1. casual, insouciant, nonchalant | marked by blithe unconcern.; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner" |
| ~ unconcerned | lacking in interest or care or feeling.; "the average American...is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal and economic and governmental actions...beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control"; "blithely unconcerned about his friend's plight" |
| phlegmatic | | |
| adj. | 1. phlegmatic, phlegmatical | showing little emotion.; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man" |
| ~ unemotional | unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion. |
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