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cold

 
Adjective cold has 13 senses
  1. cold - 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 up the heat"; "a cold beer"
    Antonyms:
    hot, baking, baking hot, blistering, blistery, burning, calefacient, warming, calefactory, calefactive, heating, calorifacient, calorific, heated, heated up, het, het up, hottish, red-hot, sizzling, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous, sweltering, sweltry, thermal, torrid, sultry, tropical, tropic, white, white-hot, fervent, fervid, fiery, igneous, heatable, overheated, scorching
  2. cold - 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"
    Antonyms:
    hot, fiery, flaming, heated, red-hot, sizzling, sensual, sultry, torrid, white-hot
  3. cold - having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
    Antonym:
    fresh (indirect, via stale)
  4. cold - (color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish gray"
    Antonym:
    warm (indirect, via cool)
  5. cold - marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started"
    Antonym:
    imperfect (indirect, via perfect)
  6. cold, stale - no longer new; uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news"
    Antonym: new (indirect, via old)
  7. cold - so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him"
    Antonym:
    mild (indirect, via intense)
  8. cold, frigid - sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman"
    Antonym: loving (indirect, via unloving)
  9. cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate - without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
    Antonym: humane (indirect, via inhumane)
  10. cold - feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play"
    Antonym:
    enthusiastic (indirect, via unenthusiastic)
  11. cold - unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold"
    Antonym:
    conscious (indirect, via unconscious)
  12. cold - of a seeker; far from the object sought
    Antonyms:
    near, close (indirect, via far)
  13. cold - lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave"
    Antonym:
    alive (indirect, via dead)
Noun cold has 3 senses
  1. cold, common cold - a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"
    --1 is a kind of respiratory disease, respiratory illness, respiratory disorder; communicable disease
    --1 has parts: rhinorrhea
    --1 has particulars: head cold
  2. coldness, cold, low temperature - the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
    --2 is a kind of temperature; vasoconstrictor, vasoconstrictive
    --2 has particulars:
     chill, iciness, gelidity; chilliness, coolness; frostiness; cool
  3. cold, coldness - the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"
    --3 is a kind of temperature
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