Meaning of 'cold'

adjective

lacking the warmth of life

Example: "They were cold in their grave."

adjective

of a seeker

Synonyms: warm

adjective

unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication

Example: "the boxer was out cold"

adjective

feeling or showing no enthusiasm

Example: "a cold audience"

adjective

having lost freshness through passage of time

Example: "a cold trail"

adjective

having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration

Example: "a cold climate"

adjective

extended meanings

Example: "especially of psychological coldness"

Synonyms: hot

adjective

without compunction or human feeling

Example: "in cold blood"

Synonyms: insensate inhuman cold-blooded

adjective

sexually unresponsive

Example: "We were cold to the couple's advances."

Synonyms: frigid

adjective

so intense as to be almost uncontrollable

Example: "cold fury gripped him"

adjective

lacking originality or spontaneity

Synonyms: stale dusty moth-eaten

adjective

marked by errorless familiarity

Example: "The understudy had their lines cold before rehearsals started."

adjective

(color) giving no sensation of warmth

Example: "a cold bluish grey"

noun

the absence of heat

Example: "the coldness made our breath visible"

Synonyms: coldness frigidity frigidness low temperature

noun

the sensation produced by low temperatures

Example: "I shivered from the cold."

Synonyms: coldness

noun

a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)

Example: "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"

Synonyms: common cold