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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He would study maps and globes, picturing the people and animals who call the coldest reaches of the Earth home.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

“This happened in the coldest way possible: DA Form 3434 stated that my last day as ombudsman for Stars and Stripes is April 28,” she wrote.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

The coldest Easter Sunday on record was in 2014 when temperatures at Braemar in Aberdeenshire fell to -12.5C.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

After one of the coldest winters in recent memory across much of the United States, new research is shedding light on a serious and often overlooked danger.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

Another extension of human range that soon followed was the one into the coldest parts of Eurasia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond