cold
adjective (LOW TEMPERATURE) /kəʊld/
/koʊld/ Definition
A1 at a low temperature, especially when compared to the temperature of the human body, and not hot, or warm: a cold day/house cold food/water cold hands cold weather My feet are so cold. It's freezing cold today. You'll feel cold if you don't wear a coat.ColdSnow and ice coldness /ˈkəʊld.nəs/
/ˈkoʊld-/ noun [U] C2 It was the coldness of her manner that struck me.Not being friendlyNot saying muchBlunt and direct in speech and behaviourNot showing or feeling emotionsControlling emotions
/ˈkoʊld-/ noun [U] C2 It was the coldness of her manner that struck me.Not being friendlyNot saying muchBlunt and direct in speech and behaviourNot showing or feeling emotionsControlling emotions(Definition of cold adjective (LOW TEMPERATURE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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col- prefix
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col. noun
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Col. noun
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cola noun
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colander noun
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cold adjective (UNFRIENDLY)
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cold cream noun
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cold cuts noun
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cold fish noun
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cold frame noun
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Synonyms and related words:
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey idiom
- bitter adjective (COLD)
- bitterly adverb (COLD)
- brass monkey weather idiom
- chill noun (COLD)
- chill verb
- cooling adjective
- freeze noun (COLD WEATHER)
- freezing adjective, adverb
- frigid adjective (COLD)
- frigid zone noun
- glacial adjective (ICE/COLD)
- ice-cold adjective
- nip noun (COLD)
- nuclear winter noun
- perished adjective
- raw adjective (COLD)
- stone-cold adjective
- windchill noun
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