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coldest

ADJECTIVE

chilly, freezing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bitter bleak brisk chilled cool crisp frigid frosty frozen icy intense raw snowy wintry

STRONG

Siberian arctic chill cutting hyperborean icebox keen sharp stinging

WEAK

algid below freezing below zero benumbed biting blasting boreal brumal frore gelid glacial have goose bumps hawkish hiemal iced inclement nipping nippy numbed numbing one-dog night penetrating piercing polar rimy severe shivery sleety snappy two-dog night

Antonyms

STRONGEST

friendly good heated hot kind mild nice pleasant responsive temperate warm

STRONG

blunt dull ignorant stupid

WEAK

animated ardent eager enthusiastic excited fervid interested sympathetic zealous

ADJECTIVE

aloof, unresponsive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cool distant frigid frosty icy inhospitable lukewarm

STRONG

dead

WEAK

apathetic cold-blooded emotionless glacial impersonal imperturbable indifferent inhibited joyless matter-of-fact passionless phlegmatic reserved reticent spiritless standoffish stony unconcerned undemonstrative unenthusiastic unfeeling unimpassioned unmoved unresponsive unsympathetic

Antonyms

STRONGEST

excited friendly hot kind responsive warm

WEAK

animated ardent eager enthusiastic fervid interested sympathetic zealous

Example Sentences

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The winter of 1962-63 is one of the coldest on record.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

She did say that because Europe is coming out of the coldest part of the year, it will be a smaller problem.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

You would expect Lapland to be cold at this time of year but parts of northern Sweden have had their second coldest January on record.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

I’m a Capricorn from Wisconsin, which means my birthday arrives at the coldest, darkest time of the year — when people stay close to home, not linger over dinner or celebrate anything at all.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026

Grandma still slept at the coldest end of the loft, only now in her thick rabbit-fur blanket.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich