| chilly | | |
| n. (food) | 1. chile, chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly | very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency. |
| ~ hot pepper | any of various pungent capsicum fruits. |
| ~ jalapeno pepper, jalapeno | hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico. |
| ~ cayenne, cayenne pepper | a long and often twisted hot red pepper. |
| ~ chili powder | powder made of ground chili peppers mixed with e.g. cumin and garlic and oregano. |
| ~ capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper | plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red. |
| adj. | 2. chilly | not characterized by emotion.; "a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues" |
| ~ unemotional | unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion. |
| adj. | 3. chilly, parky | appreciably or disagreeably cold. |
| ~ 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. | 4. chilly | lacking warmth of feeling.; "a chilly greeting" |
| ~ unfriendly | not disposed to friendship or friendliness.; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take" |
| 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" |
| chill | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. chill, gelidity, iciness | coldness due to a cold environment. |
| ~ 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. (feeling) | 2. chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle | an almost pleasurable sensation of fright.; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" |
| ~ fear, fearfulness, fright | an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight). |
| n. (state) | 3. chill, shivering | a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever. |
| ~ symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease. |
| n. (feeling) | 4. chill, pall | a sudden numbing dread. |
| ~ apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread | fearful expectation or anticipation.; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" |
| v. (emotion) | 5. chill | depress or discourage.; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers" |
| ~ cast down, deject, depress, dismay, dispirit, demoralise, demoralize, get down | lower someone's spirits; make downhearted.; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" |
| v. (change) | 6. 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) | 7. 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" |
| 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. 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. | 4. 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. | 5. 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. | 6. 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. | 7. 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. | 8. 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. | 9. 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" |
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