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Cold   /koʊld/   Listen
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"  Antonym: hot.
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"  Antonym: hot.
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"  Antonym: hotness.
3.
The sensation produced by low temperatures.  Synonym: coldness.  "The cold helped clear his head"



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"Cold" Quotes from Famous Books



... Northern Germany—the scene of the stupendous triumphs of Luther—is and has been, since the time of Frederick the Great, the hot-bed of rationalistic inquiries; and the Genevan as well as the French and Swiss churches which Calvin controlled have become cold, with a dreary and formal Protestantism, without poetry or life. But the Church of England has survived two revolutions and all the changes of human thought, and is still a mighty power, decorous, beautiful, conservative, yet open to all the liberalizing influences of an age of science and ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI • John Lord

... near, and now stood watching—"and with Daddy Dan, you just come to me. But if you want to go to—to Munner, you just go." On his face the struggle showed—the struggle to be perfectly just. "If you stay here, maybe it'll be cold, sometimes when the wind blows, and maybe it'll be hard other ways. And if you go to munner, she always be takin' care of you, and no harm'll ever come to you and you'll sleep soft between sheets, and if you wake up in the night she'll be there to talk to you. And you'll have pretty little ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand

... citizens shall view him, and the great Remunerator shall examine, and shall punish! If anger, hatred, and enmity are buried with a man, as it is believed, begin then to return to yourself; begin to be ashamed to have acted against your ancient humanity; begin, then, to wish to appear a mother, and not a cold negligent step-dame. Yield your tears to your son; yield your maternal piety to him whom once you repulsed, and, living, cast away from you! At least think of possessing him dead, and restore your citizenship, your award, and your grace, to his memory. He was a son ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... gendarme Rengade roughly opened a way for himself through the crowd of inquisitive idlers. As soon as he heard that the troops had returned with several hundred insurgents, he had risen from bed, shivering with fever, and risking his life in the cold, dark December air. Scarcely was he out of doors when his wound reopened, the bandage which covered his eyeless socket became stained with blood, and a red streamlet trickled over his cheek and moustache. ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola

... which I think became and was incumbent upon me, but which I by no means conceive to have been a fit rule for others, I cannot repent it. While the slightest aspiration of breath passed those lips, now closed for ever,—while one drop of life's blood beat in that heart, now cold for ever,—I could not, I ought not, to have acted otherwise than I did.—I now come with a very embarrassed feeling to that declaration which I yet think you must have expected from me, but which I make with reluctance, because, from the ...
— Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2 • Thomas Moore


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