cold
Pronunciation
[change]- (UK) IPA (key): /kəʊld/, SAMPA: /k@Uld/
- (US) enPR: kōld, IPA (key): /koʊld/, SAMPA: /koUld/
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Adjective
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- If something is cold, it is low in temperature.
- The wind made her hands cold.
- It's going to be very cold today so wear a jacket.
- If someone is cold, they are not kind.
- Synonym: unkind
- Antonym: kind
- She's always so friendly to everyone, but she's really cold to him.
- If you have cold feet, you are nervous about something you planned to and you feel like not doing it.
- I almost took the new job, but in the end I got cold feet.
- If you give someone the cold shoulder, you ignore them or you are unfriendly towards them.
- If you stop cold, you stop very suddenly.
- If you are out cold, you are unconscious.
- A cold light or colour is a one, often with some blue, that makes you feel cold or empty.
- If you do something cold, you do it without any preparation.
- Cold cash is coins and bills, not promises to pay.
- If something leaves you cold, it doesn't interest you at all.
- If someone's or something's trail is cold, you can't find them because they have been missing for too long.
Related words
[change]- coldly
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- cold call
- cold cream
- cold cuts
- cold frame
- cold front
- cold fusion
- cold snap
- cold sore
- cold spell
- cold turkey
- cold war
- cold-blooded
- cold-hearted