Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature
Definition: the absence of heat
Usage: the coldness made our breath visible; come in out of the cold; cold is a vasoconstrictor
Similar words: vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor, pressor
Definition: any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure
Similar words: temperature
Definition: the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)
Definition: the sensation produced by low temperatures
Usage: he shivered from the cold; the cold helped clear his head
Similar words: temperature
Definition: the somatic sensation of cold or heat
Synonyms: cold, common cold
Definition: a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
Usage: will they never find a cure for the common cold?
Similar words: communicable disease
Definition: a disease that can be communicated from one person to another
Similar words: respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness
Definition: a disease affecting the respiratory system
Synonyms: cold
Definition: lacking the warmth of life
Usage: cold in his grave
Similar words: dead
Definition: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
Usage: the nerve is dead; a dead pallor; he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
Synonyms: cold
Definition: of a seeker; far from the object sought
Similar words: far
Definition: located at a great distance in time or space or degree
Usage: we come from a far country; far corners of the earth; the far future; a far journey; the far side of the road; far from the truth; far in the future
Synonyms: cold
Definition: unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
Usage: the boxer was out cold; pass out cold
Similar words: unconscious
Definition: not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead
Usage: lay unconscious on the floor
Synonyms: cold
Definition: feeling or showing no enthusiasm
Usage: a cold audience; a cold response to the new play
Similar words: unenthusiastic
Definition: not enthusiastic; lacking excitement or ardor
Usage: an unenthusiastic performance by the orchestra; unenthusiastic applause
Synonyms: cold
Definition: having lost freshness through passage of time
Usage: a cold trail; dogs attempting to catch a cold scent
Similar words: stale
Definition: lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
Usage: stale bread; the beer was stale
Synonyms: cold
Definition: having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
Usage: a cold climate; a cold room; dinner has gotten cold; cold fingers; if you are cold, turn up the heat; a cold beer
Similar words: acold
Definition: of persons; feeling cold
Usage: Poor Tom's acold- Shakespeare
Similar words: algid
Definition: chilly
Usage: a person who is algid is marked by prostration and has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure
Similar words: arctic, icy, glacial, frigid, gelid, polar
Definition: extremely cold
Usage: an arctic climate; a frigid day; gelid waters of the North Atlantic; glacial winds; icy hands; polar weather
Similar words: raw, bleak, cutting
Definition: unpleasantly cold and damp
Usage: bleak winds of the North Atlantic
Definition: appreciably or disagreeably cold
Similar words: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy
Definition: pleasantly cold and invigorating
Usage: crisp clear nights and frosty mornings; a nipping wind; a nippy fall day; snappy weather
Similar words: frigorific
Definition: causing cold; cooling or chilling
Similar words: frore
Definition: very cold
Usage: whatever the evenings be--frosty and frore or warm and wet
Similar words: frosty, rimed, rimy
Definition: covered with frost
Usage: a frosty glass; hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost-Wm.Faulkner
Similar words: heatless
Definition: without generating heat
Usage: luminescent organisms emit heatless light
Similar words: ice-cold
Definition: as cold as ice
Similar words: refrigerant, refrigerating
Definition: causing cooling or freezing
Usage: a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide
Similar words: refrigerated
Definition: made or kept cold by refrigeration
Usage: keep the milk refrigerated; a refrigerated truck
Similar words: shivery
Definition: cold enough to cause shivers
Usage: felt all shivery; shivery weather
Similar words: stone-cold
Definition: completely cold
Usage: by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold
Similar words: unheated, unwarmed
Definition: not having been heated or warmed
Usage: an unheated room; unwarmed rolls
Synonyms: cold
Definition: extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
Usage: a cold unfriendly nod; a cold and unaffectionate person; a cold impersonal manner; cold logic; the concert left me cold
Similar words: emotionless, passionless
Definition: unmoved by feeling
Usage: he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served; this passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine-Margaret Deland
Similar words: glacial, icy, wintry, frigid, frosty, frozen
Definition: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
Usage: a frigid greeting; got a frosty reception; a frozen look on their faces; a glacial handshake; icy stare; wintry smile
Synonyms: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
Definition: without compunction or human feeling
Usage: in cold blood; cold-blooded killing; insensate destruction
Similar words: inhumane
Definition: lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion
Usage: humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world; biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used
Definition: sexually unresponsive
Usage: was cold to his advances; a frigid woman
Similar words: unloving
Definition: not giving or reciprocating affection
Synonyms: cold
Definition: so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
Usage: cold fury gripped him
Similar words: intense
Definition: possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
Usage: intense heat; intense anxiety; intense desire; intense emotion; the skunk's intense acrid odor; intense pain; enemy fire was intense
Synonyms: cold, dusty, moth-eaten, stale
Definition: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
Usage: moth-eaten theories about race; stale news
Similar words: unoriginal
Definition: not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual
Usage: the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations; his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern- Gwethalyn Graham
Synonyms: cold
Definition: marked by errorless familiarity
Usage: had her lines cold before rehearsals started
Similar words: perfect
Definition: being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
Usage: a perfect circle; a perfect reproduction; perfect happiness; perfect manners; a perfect specimen; a perfect day
Synonyms: cold
Definition: (color) giving no sensation of warmth
Usage: a cold bluish grey
Similar words: cool
Definition: (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets
Usage: cool greens and blues and violets