Cold is the opposite of hot. It can refer to temperature, passion, friendliness, and even your personality.
Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
Noun
the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
Noun
the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"
Noun
a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"
Adjective S.
lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave"
Adjective S.
of a seeker; far from the object sought
Adjective S.
unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold"
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feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play"
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having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
Adjective
used of physical coldness; having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn u
Adjective
extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion; "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold"
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without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
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sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman"
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so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him"
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no longer new; uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news"
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marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started"
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(color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish gray"
n.
Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or
hot; gelid; frigid.
n.
Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence
of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
n.
Not pungent or acrid.
n.
Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion;
spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
n.
Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
n.
Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
n.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly;
having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
n.
Not sensitive; not acute.
n.
Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of
a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
n.
Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
n.
The relative absence of heat or warmth.
n.
The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or
chillness.
n.
A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to
cold or dampness; a catarrh.
v. i.
To become cold.
Cold
A cold and unconcerned spectator.
No cold relation is a zealous citizen.5.
What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene.7.
Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose.9.
He was slain in cold blood after thefight was over.
Cold
When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart.3.
Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
The relative absence of heat or warmth.
Usage Examples
America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.
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Other Usage ExamplesAs a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.
Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.
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