| 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" |
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