cold

1. Having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration (synset 301254201)
   "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer"
   also:

   • frozen - turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold
   • cool - neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat
   tells us about: temperature - the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)
   similar to:

   • acold - of persons; feeling cold
   • algid - chilly
   • arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar - extremely cold
   • bleak, cutting, raw - unpleasantly cold and damp
   • chilly, parky - appreciably or disagreeably cold
   • crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy - pleasantly cold and invigorating
   • frigorific - causing cold; cooling or chilling
   • frore - very cold
   • frosty, rimed, rimy - covered with frost
   • heatless - without generating heat
   • ice-cold - as cold as ice
   • refrigerant, refrigerating - causing cooling or freezing
   • refrigerated - made or kept cold by refrigeration
   • shivery - cold enough to cause shivers
   • stone-cold - completely cold
   • unheated, unwarmed - not having been heated or warmed
2. Extended meanings;
   Especially of psychological coldness;
   Without human warmth or emotion (synset 301260684)
   "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold"
   also:

   • passionless - not passionate
   • cool - psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike
   tells us about: emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or quality
   similar to:

   • emotionless, passionless - unmoved by feeling
   • frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry - devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
3. Having lost freshness through passage of time (synset 301073210)
   "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
   similar to: stale - lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
4. (color) giving no sensation of warmth (synset 302542870)
   "a cold bluish grey"
   similar to: cool - inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets when referring to color
5. Marked by errorless familiarity (synset 301754740)
   "had her lines cold before rehearsals started"
   similar to: perfect - being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
6. Lacking originality or spontaneity;
   No longer new (synset 301694033)
   "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"
   similar to: unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual
   same as: dusty, moth-eaten, stale
7. So intense as to be almost uncontrollable (synset 301514641)
   "cold fury gripped him"
   similar to: intense - possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
8. Sexually unresponsive (synset 301469690)
   "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman"
   similar to: unloving - not giving or reciprocating affection
   same as: frigid
9. Without compunction or human feeling (synset 301267081)
   "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
   similar to: inhumane - lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion
   same as: cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
10. Feeling or showing no enthusiasm (synset 300890609)
    "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play"
    similar to: unenthusiastic - not enthusiastic; lacking excitement or ardor
11. Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication (synset 300574324)
    "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold"
    similar to: unconscious - not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead
12. Of a seeker;
    Far from the object sought (synset 300444844)
    similar to: far - located at a great distance in time or space or degree
13. Lacking the warmth of life (synset 300097668)
    "cold in his grave"
    similar to: dead - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

1. A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs) (synset 114168983)
   "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"
   is a type of:

   • communicable disease - a disease that can be communicated from one person to another
   • respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness - a disease affecting the respiratory system
   subtypes: head cold - a common cold affecting the nasal passages and resulting in congestion and sneezing and headache
   has: rhinorrhea - persistent watery mucus discharge from the nose (as in the common cold)
   same as: common cold
2. The absence of heat (synset 105022301)
   "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
   is a type of:

   • pressor, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor - 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
   • temperature - the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)
   subtypes:

   • chill, gelidity, iciness - coldness due to a cold environment
   • chilliness, coolness, nip - the property of being moderately cold
   • frostiness - coldness as evidenced by frost
   • cool - the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature
   same as: coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature
3. The sensation produced by low temperatures (synset 105733621)
   "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"
   is a type of: temperature - the somatic sensation of cold or heat
   same as: coldness

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