Grep of noun cold
cold
cold's foot
cold-water flat
cold cereal
cold chisel
cold comfort
cold cream
cold cuts
cold duck
cold feet
cold fish
cold frame
cold front
cold fusion
cold medicine
cold rubber
cold shoulder
cold snap
cold sore
cold spell
cold stuffed tomato
cold sweat
cold turkey
cold war
cold wave
cold weather
coldheartedness
coldness
common cold
common scold
head cold
scold
Overview of noun cold
The noun cold has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (5) 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?")
2. (5) coldness, cold, low temperature -- (the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor")
3. cold, coldness -- (the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head")
Overview of adj cold
The adj cold has 13 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (40) cold -- (used of physical coldness; 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")
2. (13) 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")
3. (1) cold -- (having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent")
4. cold -- ((color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish gray")
5. cold -- (marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started")
6. cold, stale -- (no longer new uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news")
7. cold -- (so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him")
8. cold, frigid -- (sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman")
9. cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate -- (without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction")
10. cold -- (feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play")
11. cold -- (unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold")
12. cold -- (of a seeker; far from the object sought)
13. cold -- (lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave")
Antonyms of adj cold
13 senses of cold
Sense 1
cold (vs. hot)
hot (vs. cold)
=> baking, baking hot
=> blistering, blistery
=> boiling, scalding
=> burning(postnominal)
=> calefacient, warming
=> calefactory, calefactive, heating
=> calorifacient
=> calorific
=> heated, heated up het, het up
=> hottish
=> red-hot
=> sizzling
=> sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous
=> sweltering, sweltry
=> thermal
=> torrid, sultry
=> tropical, tropic
=> white, white-hot
=> fervent, fervid
=> fiery, igneous
=> heatable
=> overheated
=> scorching
Sense 2
cold (vs. hot)
hot (vs. cold)
=> boiling, sizzling
=> fiery, flaming
=> heated
=> red-hot, sizzling
=> sensual, sultry
=> torrid
=> white-hot
Sense 3
cold
INDIRECT (VIA stale) -> fresh
Sense 4
cold
INDIRECT (VIA cool) -> warm
Sense 5
cold
INDIRECT (VIA perfect) -> imperfect
Sense 6
cold, stale
INDIRECT (VIA old) -> new
Sense 7
cold
INDIRECT (VIA intense) -> mild
Sense 8
cold, frigid
INDIRECT (VIA unloving) -> loving
Sense 9
cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
INDIRECT (VIA inhumane) -> humane
Sense 10
cold
INDIRECT (VIA unenthusiastic) -> enthusiastic
Sense 11
cold
INDIRECT (VIA unconscious) -> conscious
Sense 12
cold
INDIRECT (VIA far) -> near close
Sense 13
cold
INDIRECT (VIA dead) -> alive
Similarity of adj cold
13 senses of cold
Sense 1
cold (vs. hot)
=> acold
=> algid
=> arctic, freezing, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar
=> bleak, cutting, raw
=> chilled, ice-cold, iced
=> chilled, shivering
=> crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy, parky
=> frigorific
=> frore
=> frosted, frosty, rimed, rimy
=> refrigerant, refrigerating
=> shivery
=> stone-cold
=> unheated, unwarmed
=> heatless
=> refrigerated
Also See-> cool#1; frozen#1
Sense 2
cold (vs. hot)
=> emotionless, passionless
=> frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry
Also See-> cool#4; passionless#1
Sense 3
cold
=> stale (vs. fresh)
Sense 4
cold
=> cool (vs. warm)
Sense 5
cold
=> perfect (vs. imperfect)
Sense 6
cold, stale
=> old (vs. new)
Sense 7
cold
=> intense (vs. mild)
Sense 8
cold, frigid
=> unloving (vs. loving)
Sense 9
cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
=> inhumane (vs. humane)
Sense 10
cold
=> unenthusiastic (vs. enthusiastic)
Sense 11
cold
=> unconscious (vs. conscious)
Sense 12
cold
=> far (vs. near)
Sense 13
cold
=> dead (vs. alive)
Attributes of adj cold
2 of 13 senses of cold
Sense 1
cold (vs. hot)
=> temperature
Sense 2
cold (vs. hot)
=> emotionality, emotionalism
Familiarity of adj cold
cold used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 13)
Grep of adj cold
acold
cold
cold-blooded
cold sober
coldhearted
ice-cold
stone-cold
Overview of noun cold
The noun cold has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (5) 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?")
2. (5) coldness, cold, low temperature -- (the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor")
3. cold, coldness -- (the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head")
Overview of adj cold
The adj cold has 13 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (40) cold -- (used of physical coldness; 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")
2. (13) 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")
3. (1) cold -- (having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent")
4. cold -- ((color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish gray")
5. cold -- (marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started")
6. cold, stale -- (no longer new uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news")
7. cold -- (so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him")
8. cold, frigid -- (sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman")
9. cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate -- (without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction")
10. cold -- (feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play")
11. cold -- (unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold")
12. cold -- (of a seeker; far from the object sought)
13. cold -- (lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave")
cold definition
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