English Explanatory Dictionary

chill

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
  2. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
  3. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
  4. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
  5. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
  6. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
  7. Calmness; equanimity.
  8. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
  9. A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
adj
  1. Moderately cold or chilly.
  2. Unwelcoming; not cordial.
  3. Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
  4. "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
  5. Okay, not a problem.
verb
  1. To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
  2. To become cold.
  3. To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
  4. To become hard by rapid cooling.
  5. To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
  6. To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
  7. To smoke marijuana.
  8. To discourage, depress.
contraction
  1. I will
noun
  1. A kind of lamp that burns fish oil.
name
  1. Acronym of CCITT High Level Language.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/tʃɪl/ en-us-chill.ogg /tʃəl/ /dʒɪl(lɯ)/

Word forms

chill chills more chill most chill chilling chilled ch'ill 'chill

Etymology

From Middle English chele, chile, from Old English ċiele, ċele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kali, from Proto-Germanic *kaliz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Closely related with Dutch kil. Also akin to cool, cold, gel, and congeal, which see.

Synonyms

laid-back unconcerned airy at ease at peace carefree careless casual chill cool devil-may-care easy-breezy easygoing happy-go-lucky indifferent insouciant leisurely lighthearted loose mellow nonchalant pococurante relaxed serene solute tranquil unanxious unbothered undisturbed unruffled untroubled unworried wanton chill out I'll

Derived words

bechill chilblain chill girl chill hours chillish chillness chill-out chillproof chillsome chillstep chillth chillwave cook-chill dumb chill no chill psychill take the chill off wind chill windchill zero chill chilly achill blood-chilling chillable chilled chiller chilling chill it with chill to the bone Netflix and chill overchill prechill rechill unchill chillax chilliness chilling effect chill out chillout chill pill libel chill send chills cast a chill
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