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cold🔊

(of a thing) Having a low temperature.

(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.

(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

(unfriendly) Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.

Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.

📑 Synonyms: apprehensive

{{cap|dispassionate}}; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.

Completely unprepared; without introduction.

📑 Synonyms: unprepared unready

Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

(usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.

(usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.

(slang) Cool, impressive.

(obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.

📑 Synonyms: mild neutral

(obsolete) {{cap|unexciting}}; dull; uninteresting.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

(obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.

Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare ''warm'' and ''hot''.

(painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.

📑 Synonyms: Thesaurus:bluish

(databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.

(informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.

(informal) Not radioactive.

(firearm) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.

Without electrical power being supplied.

📑 Synonyms: dead

A condition of low temperature.

(figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.

(illness) (pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

(slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.

At a low temperature.

Without preparation.

(dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.