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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chilly, freezing |
| Synonyms: | Siberian, algid, arctic, below freezing, below zero, benumbed, biting, bitter, blasting, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilled, cool, crisp, cutting, frigid, frore, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, have goose bumps, hawkish, hiemal, hyperborean, icebox, iced, icy, inclement, intense, keen, nipping, nippy, numbed, numbing, one-dog night, penetrating, piercing, polar, raw, rimy, severe, sharp, shivery, sleety, snappy, snowy, stinging, two-dog night, wintry |
| Antonyms: | hot, warm |
| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frigid conditions |
| Synonyms: | ague, algidity, algor, chill, chilliness, coldness, congelation, draft, freeze, frigidity, frost, frostbite, frostiness, frozenness, gelidity, gelidness, glaciation, goose flesh, iciness, inclemency, rawness, refrigeration, shivering, shivers, snow, wintertime, wintriness |
| Antonyms: | heat, warmth |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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Adjectives: |
aguish, algefacient, algid, algific, arctic, biting, bitter, bleak, boreal, brumal, chelmaphilic, chill, chilly, clay-cold, clumpst, cold, cold as Christmas, cold as a charity, cold as a frog, cold as a stone, cold as iron, cold as marble, cool, cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard, cooled, cooling, cutting, ectothermic, fireproof, freezing, fresh, frigid, frigolabile, frigorific, frore, frost-bitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, frosty, frozen out, gelid, glacial, haematocryal, hibernal, hyemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-bound, iced, icing, icy, inclement, incombustible, isocheimenal, keen, lukewarm, marmoreal, nipped, nipping, nival, niveous, piercing, pinching, poikilothermal, raw, shivering, siberian, starved, subboreal, tepid, unflammable, uninflammable, unthawed, unwarmed, wintry
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| Concept: | Cold. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat |
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-nouns
cold, coldness; frigidity, inclemency, fresco., winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla., [forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U. S.], lolly [N.Am.]; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; névé, serac; pruina., [Sensation of cold] chilliness; chill; shivering; goose skin, rigor, horripilation, chattering of teeth.
-verbs
be cold; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder, quiver; perish with cold; chill (render cold); horripilate.
-adjectives
cold, cool; chill, chilly; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved (made cold); shivering; aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped., cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard., icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal; hyperborean, hyperboreal; icebound; frozen out., unwarmed, unthawed; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic.
-adverbs
coldly, bitterly; pierre fendre.
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| Antonyms: | heat |
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| Main Entry: | aloof |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | remote |
| Synonyms: | above, apart, casual, chilly, cold, cold fish, cool, detached, distant, forbidding, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, haughty, incurious, indifferent, laid back, lone wolf, loner*, offish, on ice, putting on airs, reserved, secluded, solitary, standoffish, stuck up, supercilious, thick-skinned, unapproachable, unconcerned, unfriendly, uninterested, unresponsive, unsociable, unsympathetic, uppity, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | concerned, friendly, sociable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | antisocial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonparticipating; avoiding company |
| Synonyms: | alienated, ascetic, asocial, austere, cold, cynical, eremetic, hermitlike, introverted, misanthropic, reclusive, remote, reserved, retiring, solitary, standoffish, uncommunicative, unfriendly, unsociable, withdrawn |
| Notes: | to be antisocial is to be hostile to or disruptive of the established social order, marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores; while being unsociable means one is not disposed to seek the company of others or is reserved |
| Antonyms: | friendly, fun-loving, participating, sociable |
| Main Entry: | apathetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncaring, disinterested |
| Synonyms: | blah*, callous, cold, cool, could care less, couldn't care less, don't give a damn, draggy, emotionless, flat, impassive, indifferent, insensible, laid-back*, languid, moony, passive, stoic, stolid, unconcerned, unemotional, unfeeling, uninterested, unmoved, unresponsive, untouched, what the hell, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | caring, concerned, interested, responsive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | austere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe in manner |
| Synonyms: | ascetic, astringent, cold, earnest, exacting, forbidding, formal, grave, grim, hard, harsh, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, rigid, rigorous, serious, sober, solemn, somber, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, unfeeling, unrelenting |
| Antonyms: | bland, calm, gentle, meek, mild |
| Main Entry: | bare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple, unadorned |
| Synonyms: | austere, bald, basic, blunt, chaste, cold, essential, hard, literal, meager, mere, modest, scant, severe, sheer, simple, spare, stark, unembellished, unornamented |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
| Antonyms: | adorned, decorated |
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