What is the meaning of the word "cold"?
Definitions:
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(color) giving no sensation of warmth
adjective
- a cold bluish grey
- a cold bluish grey
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a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
noun
- will they never find a cure for the common cold?
- will they never find a cure for the common cold?
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extended meanings
adjective
- especially of psychological coldness
- especially of psychological coldness
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feeling or showing no enthusiasm
adjective
- a cold audience
- a cold audience
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having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
adjective
- a cold climate
- a cold climate
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having lost freshness through passage of time
adjective
- a cold trail
- a cold trail
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lacking the warmth of life
adjective
- They were cold in their grave.
- They were cold in their grave.
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marked by errorless familiarity
adjective
- The understudy had their lines cold before rehearsals started.
- The understudy had their lines cold before rehearsals started.
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sexually unresponsive
adjective
- We were cold to the couple's advances.
- We were cold to the couple's advances.
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so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
adjective
- cold fury gripped him
- cold fury gripped him
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the absence of heat
noun
- the coldness made our breath visible
- the coldness made our breath visible
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the sensation produced by low temperatures
noun
- I shivered from the cold.
- I shivered from the cold.
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unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
adjective
- the boxer was out cold
- the boxer was out cold
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without compunction or human feeling
adjective
- in cold blood
- in cold blood
Synonyms:
- cold-blooded
- coldness
- common cold
- dusty
- frigid
- frigidity
- frigidness
- hot
- inhuman
- insensate
- low temperature
- moth-eaten
- stale
- warm