cold
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cold, from Anglian Old English cald. The West Saxon form, ċeald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalaną (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots cald, cauld (“cold”), Saterland Frisian koold (“cold”), West Frisian kâld (“cold”), Dutch koud (“cold”), Low German kold, koolt, koold (“cold”), German kalt (“cold”), Danish kold (“cold”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kald (“cold”), Swedish kall (“cold”).
Inflected forms:
form: colder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: coldest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: colds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more cold
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cold
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a low temperature.
pos: adj
examples: A cold wind whistled through the trees.
As cold waters to a thirstie soule: so is good newes from a farre countrey.
Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!
I had always supposed that playboys didn't give a hoot for anything except blondes and cold bottles.
gloss: Causing the air to be cold.
pos: adj
examples: The forecast is that it will be very cold today.
As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted.
Antarctica is the coldest, iciest place on Earth, which makes the recent warming event particularly worrying for many scientists. […] Larter said this happens less frequently in the East Antarctic because the ocean water there is much colder.
The current high temperature expected for Kansas City on Saturday is around 5 degrees, according to the National Weather Service, which would be the coldest high temperature on record in the area for the date, according to CNN Weather. […] But could it become cold enough for officials to cancel the showdown between the Chiefs and Dolphins?
gloss: Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
pos: adj
examples: She was so cold she was shivering.
gloss: Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
pos: adj
examples: She shot me a cold glance before turning her back.
At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.
"Suppose someone pops in?" "Don't be silly. Mrs Cream is working on her book. Phyllis is in her room, typing Upjohn's speech. Wilbert's gone for a walk. Upjohn isn't here. The only character who could pop in would be the Brinkley Court ghost. If it does, give it a cold look and walk through it. That'll teach it not to come butting in where it isn't wanted, ha ha."
gloss: Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
pos: adj
examples: Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor
⁠An inner trouble I behold,
⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold,
That I shall be thy mate no more, […]
gloss: Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
pos: adj
examples: Let's look at this tomorrow with a cold head.
He's a nice guy, but the cold facts say we should fire him.
The cold truth is that states rarely undertake military action unless their national interests are at stake.
gloss: Completely unprepared; without introduction.
pos: adj
examples: He was assigned cold calls for the first three months.
The one thing considered the brass ring in selling insurance was making a sale on a cold canvass. Cold canvassing was the most dreaded exercise for most insurance salesmen.
gloss: Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
pos: adj
examples: I knocked him out cold.
After one more beer he passed out cold.
Before Mr Big could utter another word, Dad’s false leg crashed down through the window… …and the wooden foot bashed Mr Big hard on the head. The crime boss collapsed to the floor, out cold.
gloss: Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Practice your music scales until you know them cold.
Try both these maneuvers until you have them cold and can do them in the dark without thinking.
Rehearse your lines until you have them down cold.
Keep that list in front of you, or memorize it cold.
gloss: Cornered; done for.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: With that receipt, we have them cold for fraud.
Criminal interrogation. Initially they will dream up explanations faster than you could ever do so, but when they become fatigued, often they will acknowledge that you have them cold.
"Either Upjohn agrees to drop that libel suit or he doesn't get these notes, as he calls them, and without them he won't be able to utter a word. He'll have to come across with the price of the papers. Won't he, Jeeves?"
"He would appear to have no alternative, miss."
"Unless he wants to get up on that platform and stand there opening and shutting his mouth like a goldfish. We've got him cold."
gloss: Cool, impressive.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: There were more than a few unforgettable moments from Sunday's Game 7 showdown between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings. Steph Curry came up with an epic performance on a record-setting evening, and he also produced one of the coldest photos of the NBA Playoffs thus far.
Lowkey she so cold for that
Indians see this fit and think it's the coldest thing ever
gloss: Not pungent or acrid.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: cold plants
gloss: Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
The jest grows cold[…]when it comes on in a second scene.
gloss: Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
pos: adj
examples: a cold scent
gloss: Not sensitive; not acute.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.
gloss: Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
pos: adj
examples: You're cold … getting warmer … hot! You've found it!
gloss: Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
pos: adj
gloss: Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
pos: adj
gloss: Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I can't believe she said that...that was cold!
River Song: (upon seeing the still-living Doctor, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death) This is cold. Even by your standards, this is cold.
"At the risk of sounding cold though, I'm glad he's gone. His abandonment left me in Aunt Fara's custody, and that's honestly the best thing he's ever done for me."
gloss: Not radioactive.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: "That's right," Jackson said. "The Old Man will be pleased to welcome you." There was eagerness in his reedy voice. "What do you say? We'll take care of you. Feed you, bring you cold plants and animals. For a week maybe?"
gloss: Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
pos: adj
gloss: Without electrical power being supplied.
pos: adj
examples: Therefore, to avoid unnecessary delay in the trouble-shooting procedure, it is good practice to make a resistance check on a "cold" circuit (before applying power), to determine whether resistance values are normal.
gloss: A condition of low temperature.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Come in, out of the cold.
gloss: A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.
gloss: A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week
Dr. Jon S. Abramson, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Wake Forest Medical School, has found no medical evidence to support feeding a cold and starving a fever. He is particularly offended by the latter part of the phrase. […] “Always feed both colds and fevers,” Abramson said.
gloss: Rheum; sleepy dust.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Who the fuck is this, pagin' me at 5:46 in the morning? / crack of dawn and now I'm yawnin' / wipe the cold out my eye, see who's this pagin' me and why
But I remember this, moms would lick her finger tips / to wipe the cold out my eye before school with her spit
gloss: At a low temperature.
pos: adv
examples: The steel was processed cold.
gloss: Without preparation.
pos: adv
examples: The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
Two weeks after it closed, he started rehearsals for Cheer Up, a new play by Mary Roberts Rinehart booked into the Harris Theatre. It was to open cold without any out-of-town tryout under the direction of a young Cecil B. DeMille […]
gloss: In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
pos: adv
tags: dated
informal
slang
examples: Now Little Bo Peep cold lost her sheep / And Rip van Winkle fell the hell asleep
Synonyms: algid
Arctic
Baltic
boreal
brass monkeys
brumal
chill
chilled
chilly
clay-cold
cold
cold as a mackerel
cold as charity
freezing
frosty
frore
frozen
gelid
glacial
hiemal
icy
inclement
nesh
nippy
parky
polar
sleety
snowy
taters
wintry
common cold
coryza
head cold
pose
Antonyms: hot
warm
Related words: cold snap
frigidization
Jack Frost
one-dog night
shivering
three-dog night
wind chill
cool
fresh
lukewarm
tepid
Derived words: acold
a cold day in July
anticold
blow hot and cold
bright lights and cold steel
cold steel and bright lights
bring someone out in a cold sweat
bust ass cold
clap cold
clay-cold
cold abscess
cold agglutinin disease
cold antibody
cold approach
cold-aridiphilous
cold as a mackerel
cold as a wagon tire
cold as a well-digger's arse
cold as a witch's kiss
cold as a witch's tit
cold as a witch's teat
cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra
cold as balls
cold as charity
cold as death
Cold Ash
Cold Ashton
cold as ice
cold as the grave
cold-avoidant
cold avoidant
cold-back
cold back
coldbeer
cold biscuit
cold blob
cold blood
cold-blooded
Cold Blow
cold boot
cold boot attack
cold brew
cold-brew coffee
cold brew coffee
cold call
cold camera
cold cap
cold capping
cold carl
cold case
cold cash
cold-cathode
cold cathode
cold-cathode fluorescent lamp
cold-cathode lamp
cold-cathode light
cold-cathode tube
cold chain
cold chills
cold chips
cold chisel
Cold Christmas
coldcock
cold-cock
cold cock
cold coffee
cold collation
cold comfort
cold-conk
cold cook
cold cream
cold cut
cold cuts
cold-cuts
cold dark matter
cold day in Hell
cold deck
cold dish
cold-drawn
cold drink money
cold drop
cold duck
cold-email
cold email
cold emailing
cold empathy
colden
cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
cold extraction
cold-eyed
cold feet
cold finger
cold fire
cold fish
cold flour
cold food powder
cold forming
cold frame
cold front
cold fusion
cold gruel
cold hand
cold hands, warm heart
cold hard cash
cold hardy
cold-hearted
Cold Hiendley
coldhouse
coldie
cold in one's grave
cold iron
coldish
Cold Kirby
Cold Lake
cold launch
cold light
coldlike
cold-livered
coldly
cold meat
cold meat box
cold meat cart
cold meat train
Cold Meece
cold moon
cold-natured
coldness
Cold Norton
cold one
cold open
cold pack
cold patch
cold pig
cold pole
cold-press
cold press
cold-pressed
cold prickly
coldproof
cold rain process
cold read
cold reading
cold roll
cold rubber
cold saw
cold sell
cold shoe
cold-short
cold short
coldshoulder
cold-shoulder
cold shoulder
cold shoulder sleeve
cold shower
cold-shut
cold shut
coldsleep
cold sleep
cold sleeper
cold-smoked salmon
cold smoking
cold snap
cold sober
coldsome
cold spell
cold spot
Coldspring
Cold Spring
cold start
cold steel
cold storage
cold store
cold sweat
cold tail
cold tap
cold transfer
cold trap
coldtrap
cold treatment
cold trot
cold turkey
cold ulcer
cold wallet
cold war
coldward
Cold Warrior
cold warrior
coldwater
coldwater flat
cold-water flat
cold water flat
coldwave
cold wave
cold weapon
cold weld
cold welding
cold without
cold work
coldwork
cold working
coldworking
Colombian cold
Coniston Cold
encolden
freezing cold
my cold, dead hands
get cold feet
give someone the cold shoulder
go down like a cup of cold sick
grow cold
have no fear of ice cold beer
hot and cold
icecold
ice-cold
ice cold
in cold blood
in the cold light of day
is your head cold
key-cold
leave someone cold
noncold
one-cold
one's blood runs cold
overcold
pole of cold
pour cold water on
pour cold water over
revenge is a dish best served cold
run hot and cold
stone-cold fox
stone-cold sober
stonecold
stone-cold
stone cold
supercold
throw cold water on
ultracold
bitter cold
catch a cold
catch cold
catch one's death of cold
chest cold
cold allergy
cold-sensitive
cold shock response
cold sore
cold urticaria
cold virus
come in from the cold
common cold
head cold
in from the cold
leave someone out in the cold
paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria
rose cold
take cold
cut someone cold
down cold
out cold
stop cold
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: хладен
roman: hladen
lang: Bulgarian
word: равнодушен
roman: ravnodušen
lang: Catalan
word: fred
lang: Catalan
word: tenir fred
lang: Cebuano
word: kamig
lang: Cebuano
word: tugnaw
lang: Estonian
word: külm
lang: Galician
word: ter frío
lang: Hungarian
word: fázik
lang: Japanese
word: 寒い
roman: samui
lang: Latin
word: frigo
lang: Latin
word: frigeo
lang: Latin
word: algeo
lang: Lombard
word: fregg
lang: Lutuv
word: kang
lang: Macedonian
word: ла́ден
roman: láden
lang: Norwegian
word: kald
lang: Occitan
word: aver fred
lang: Pashto
word: سوړ
roman: soṛ
lang: Polish
word: przeziębiony
lang: Portuguese
word: estar com frio
lang: Romanian
word: înfrigurat
lang: Romanian
word: i fi frig
lang: Romansh
word: avair fraid
lang: Russian
word: холо́дный
roman: xolódnyj
lang: Russian
word: равноду́шный
roman: ravnodúšnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: хла́дан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: hládan
lang: Sicilian
word: friddu
lang: Sicilian
word: gnilatu
lang: Spanish
word: tener frío
lang: Swedish
word: kall
lang: Turkish
word: üşümüş
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صوغوق
roman: soğuk
lang: Zazaki
word: pırn