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Cold

adjective

(compar. colder; superl. coldest)

1.

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 room" , "Dinner has gotten cold" , "Cold fingers" , "If you are cold, turn up the heat" , "A cold beer"

2.

Extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion. "A cold and unaffectionate person" , "A cold impersonal manner" , "Cold logic" , "The concert left me cold"

3.

Having lost freshness through passage of time. "Dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

4.

(color) giving no sensation of warmth.

5.

Marked by errorless familiarity.

6.

Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new. Synonyms: dusty, moth-eaten, stale. "Stale news"

7.

So intense as to be almost uncontrollable.

8.

Sexually unresponsive. Synonym: frigid. "A frigid woman"

9.

Without compunction or human feeling. Synonyms: cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate. "Cold-blooded killing" , "Insensate destruction"

10.

Feeling or showing no enthusiasm. "A cold response to the new play"

11.

Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication. "Pass out cold"

12.

Of a seeker; far from the object sought.

13.

Lacking the warmth of life.

noun

1.

A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs). Synonym: common cold.

2.

The absence of heat. Synonyms: coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature. "Come in out of the cold" , "Cold is a vasoconstrictor"

3.

The sensation produced by low temperatures. Synonym: coldness. "The cold helped clear his head"

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"Cold" Quotes from Famous Books

... to get along," said Ned. "But I certainly am disappointed, Tom. I thought you'd go into a fit over this picture—it's one of the first allowed to get out of England, my London friend said. And instead of enthusing you're as cold as a clam;" and Ned shook his head in puzzled and disappointed fashion as he walked slowly ...

— Tom Swift and his War Tank - or, Doing his Bit for Uncle Sam • Victor Appleton

... be exhaled through the nose—"for it cleanseth the air, and choaketh, suppresseth and disperseth any venomous vapour." Mr. Kemp warms to his subject and proceeds with a whole-hearted panegyric that must be quoted in full: "It hath singular and contrary effects, it is good to warm one being cold, and will cool one being hot. All ages, all Sexes, all Constitutions, Young and Old, Men and Women, the Sanguine, the Cholerick, the Melancholy, the phlegmatick, take it without any manifest inconvenience, ...

— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson

... smile at this odd name, and the young man himself seemed to be conscious of its absurdity. He blushed, held out his hand and withdrew it again, dropped his hat and caught it awkwardly between his knees. Myra (who had made the sign of the cross as Hester entered) stood and regarded him with a cold, contemptuous interest. Her uncle presented the poor fellow with a proprietary wave of the hand, as though he had been ...

— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... wiping the cold sweat from his brow, "I have a slight headache, but it will soon ...

— Mysteries of Paris, V3 • Eugene Sue

... transcendentalism was like the light of the stars in a winter night, keen and cold and high. It had the pale cast of thought, and was almost too spiritual and remote to "hit the sense of mortal sight." But it was at least indigenous. If not an American literature—not national and not inclusive of all sides of American life—it ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

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