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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 grey")
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
=> burning(prenominal)
=> calefacient, warming
=> calefactory, calefactive
=> calorifacient
=> calorific
=> fervent, fervid
=> fiery, igneous
=> heatable
=> heated, heated up, het, het up
=> hottish
=> overheated
=> red-hot
=> scorching
=> sizzling
=> sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous
=> sweltering, sweltry
=> thermal
=> torrid
=> tropical, tropic
=> white, white-hot
Sense 2
cold (vs. hot)
hot (vs. cold)
=> 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, nigh
Sense 13
cold
INDIRECT (VIA dead) -> alive, live
Similarity of adj cold
13 senses of cold
Sense 1
cold (vs. hot)
=> acold
=> algid
=> arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar
=> bleak, cutting, raw
=> crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy, parky
=> frigorific
=> frore
=> frosty, rimed, rimy
=> heatless
=> ice-cold
=> refrigerant, refrigerating
=> refrigerated
=> shivery
=> stone-cold
=> unheated, unwarmed
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)
Pertainyms of adj cold
Attributes of adj cold
2 of 13 senses of cold
Sense 1
cold (vs. hot)
=> temperature
Sense 2
cold (vs. hot)
=> emotionality, emotionalism
Domain of adj cold
Domain Terms of adj cold
Familiarity of adj cold
cold used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count =13)
Grep of adj cold
acold
cold
cold-blooded
cold-eyed
cold-temperate
cold sober
coldhearted
ice-cold
stone-cold
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