cold

Adjective

• lacking the warmth of life
  • cold in his grave
    

• of a seeker; far from the object sought

• unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
  • the boxer was out cold
    
  • pass out cold
    

• feeling or showing no enthusiasm
  • a cold audience
    
  • a cold response to the new play
    

• without compunction or human feeling
  • in cold blood
    
  • cold-blooded killing
    
  • insensate destruction
    

• sexually unresponsive
  • was cold to his advances
    
  • a frigid woman
    

• so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
  • cold fury gripped him
    

• lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
  • moth-eaten theories about race
    
  • stale news
    

• marked by errorless familiarity
  • had her lines cold before rehearsals started
    

• (color) giving no sensation of warmth
  • a cold bluish grey
    

• having lost freshness through passage of time
  • a cold trail
    
  • dogs attempting to catch a cold scent
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Noun

• the sensation produced by low temperatures
  • he shivered from the cold
    
  • the cold helped clear his head
    

• the absence of heat
  • the coldness made our breath visible
    
  • come in out of the cold
    
  • cold is a vasoconstrictor
    

• a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
  • will they never find a cure for the common cold?
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cold-blooded , inhuman , insensate , frigid , stale , dusty , moth-eaten , coldness , low temperature , frigidity , frigidness , common cold
• Antonyms: 
  hot , hotness , heat , high temperature