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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frigid |
| Synonyms: | arctic, freezing, frosty, glacial, icy, polar |
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| Main Entry: | north |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
| Definition: | toward the top pole of the earth |
| Synonyms: | arctic, boreal, cold, frozen, hyperborean, northbound, northerly, northern, northmost, northward, polar, septentrional, toward North Pole, tundra |
| Antonyms: | south |
| Main Entry: | northern |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | northerly |
| Synonyms: | arctic, boreal, north, northward, polar |
| Main Entry: | northern |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to the north |
| Synonyms: | arctic, boreal, hyperborean, north, northerly, septentrion, septentrional |
| Antonyms: | southern |
| Main Entry: | shivery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold |
| Synonyms: | Siberian, algid, arctic, below freezing, below zero, benumbed, biting, bitter, blasting, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill*, chilled, chilly, 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, sleety, snappy, snowy, stinging, two-dog night, wintry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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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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