English Explanatory Dictionary

cold

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having a low temperature.
  2. Causing the air to be cold.
  3. Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
  4. Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
  5. Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
  6. Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
  7. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
  8. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
  9. Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
  10. Cornered; done for.
  11. Cool, impressive.
  12. Not pungent or acrid.
noun
  1. A condition of low temperature.
  2. A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
  3. A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
  4. Rheum; sleepy dust.
adv
  1. At a low temperature.
  2. Without preparation.
  3. In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
noun
  1. Acronym of computer output to laser disc.

Pronunciation

/kəʊld/ [kʰɔʊɫd] [kʰɒʊɫd] En-uk-cold.ogg /kɔwld/ [kʰɔw(ɫ)d] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-cold.wav /kold/ [kʰoɫd] /kould/ [kʰouɫd] /kowld/ [qʰowd] /kaːd/ /kaʊld/ kold /koʊld/ En-us-cold.ogg /kɔːld/ /kaʉld/ [kʰɒʊ(ɫ)d]

Word forms

cold colder coldest colds more cold most cold

Etymology

From Middle English cold, from Anglian Old English cald. The West Saxon form, ċeald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalaną (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Cognates Cognate with Scots cald, cauld (“cold”), Saterland Frisian koold (“cold”), West Frisian kâld (“cold”), Dutch koud (“cold”), Low German kold, koolt, koold (“cold”), German kalt (“cold”), Danish kold (“cold”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kald (“cold”), Swedish kall (“cold”).

Synonyms

algid Arctic Baltic boreal brass monkeys brumal chill chilled chilly clay-cold cold cold as a mackerel cold as charity freezing frosty frore frozen gelid glacial hiemal icy inclement nesh nippy parky polar sleety snowy taters wintry frigid cool aloof distant hostile standoffish unfriendly unwelcoming hankty hard-to-get offish quiet remote reserved strange thorny touch-me-not-ish unapproachable unbending undemonstrative unimpressionable uninvolved apprehensive disinterested indifferent candid clinical detached egal equal

Antonyms

hot warm baking boiling heated scorching searing torrid choleric tepid mild balmy amiable friendly welcoming prepared primed ready radioactive

Related words

cold snap frigidization Jack Frost one-dog night shivering three-dog night wind chill cool fresh lukewarm tepid

Derived words

acold a cold day in July anticold blow hot and cold bright lights and cold steel cold cold steel and bright lights bring someone out in a cold sweat bust ass cold clap cold clay-cold cold abscess cold agglutinin disease cold antibody cold approach cold-aridiphilous cold as a mackerel cold as a wagon tire cold as a well-digger's arse cold as a witch's kiss cold as a witch's tit cold cold as a witch's teat cold cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra cold as balls cold as charity cold as death Cold Ash Cold Ashton cold as ice cold as the grave cold-avoidant cold cold avoidant cold-back cold cold back coldbeer cold biscuit cold blob cold blood cold-blooded Cold Blow cold boot cold boot attack cold-brew coffee cold brew coffee cold cold brew cold call cold camera cold cap cold capping cold carl cold case cold cash cold cathode cold cold-cathode cold chain cold chills cold chips cold chisel Cold Christmas coldcock cold cock cold cold-cock cold coffee cold collation cold comfort cold-conk cold cook cold cream cold cuts cold cold-cuts cold cold cut

Translations

Bulgarian: хладен Bulgarian: равнодушен Catalan: fred Catalan: tenir fred Cebuano: kamig Cebuano: tugnaw Estonian: külm Galician: ter frío Hungarian: fázik Japanese: 寒い Latin: frigo Latin: frigeo Latin: algeo Lombard: fregg Lutuv: kang Macedonian: ла́ден Norwegian: kald Occitan: aver fred Pashto: سوړ Polish: przeziębiony Portuguese: estar com frio Romanian: înfrigurat Romanian: i fi frig Romansh: avair fraid Russian: холо́дный Russian: равноду́шный Serbo-Croatian: хла́дан Serbo-Croatian: hládan Sicilian: friddu Sicilian: gnilatu Spanish: tener frío Swedish: kall Turkish: üşümüş Ottoman Turkish: صوغوق Zazaki: pırn
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