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(adj)
(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
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(informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
(n)
(countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
Any fruit of a plant of the botanical genus Capsicum, which contains capsaicin and typically has a spicy or burning flavor.
Showing little or no feeling.
Not friendly; hostile; mean.
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Chile. Capital and largest city: Santiago.
Causing mild fear.
(of a thing) Having a low temperature.
Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
Cold, chilly; icy.
(with above or below) The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.
Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.
Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
Of, or relating to glaciers.
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
Somewhat cold.
Newly produced or obtained; recent.
A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
An amount charged for a privilege.
Not affectionate; dispassionate.
pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation
Causing refrigeration.
(informal, weather) Rather cold.
Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.
(literary) Very cold; icy or frosty.
(geography) Pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet, characterised by extreme cold and an icy landscape.
Causing a stinging sensation.
Senses relating to curliness.
Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
(cooking) (of food) Not cooked.
(geography) Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
Less than zero, most commonly used to refer to temperature.
Belonging to winter; winterlike; wintry.
(slang) Somewhat chill (relaxed or cool).
Cold; chilly.
Characterised or marked by cold or coldness
Very cold.
Subjected to windchill.
An island in County Mayo, the largest of the Irish isles.
(colloquial) Quite cool.
(adv)
In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
somewhat warm
(dialectal, of weather) Unpleasant; unsettled, windy, showery
Resembling or characteristic of a cold (the viral illness).
Of a person: prone to easily feeling cold.
(rare) Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea) and less enthusiastic than lukewarm would imply.
Alternative form of chilblained. [Afflicted with a chilblain.]
Unenthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).
Characterised or marked by coolness.
(simile, rare, humorous) Very cold, whether in temperature or in demeanour.
(simile, colloquial) Very cold.
(simile) Very cold (in temperature, emotionally, etc.).
Nickname for Michael Parkinson (1935–2023), English broadcaster and writer.
(simile) Very cold.
(Scotland, Northern England) Very cold; shrivelled with cold.
(rare) Caused by cold wind; describing forms of arthralgia etc. in traditional Chinese medicine.
Afflicted with a chilblain.
Somewhat lukewarm; tepid.
(slang) Showing nipples.
(rare, Yorkshire, of weather) Autumnal; cold or chilly.
Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm.
(simile, colloquial, vulgar) Very cold.
Cooled.
Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
(dialect, Southern British) Of a person, cold (in temperature); shrivelled with cold.
(of wind or weather) Cold, piercing.
(informal) Rapid and without delay.
Highly sensitive to cold temperatures.
chapped; cracked from cold; affected with chilblains.
(West Country) Chilled; numbed (with cold or fright).
Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety.
Slightly tepid.
Synonym of cold as a witch's tit.
(colloquial) Extremely cold.
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
(v)
(transitive) To numb; benumb; stiffen or paralyse with cold or fear
(slang) Mildly uncomfortable; not good.
(slang) Spiced with chili.
(uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
Somewhat snug
Of a moderate temperature; mild.
Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
(colloquial) Of the wind: cold, unpleasant, and from the east.
Fairly unpleasant.
Alternative spelling of nipply. [(slang) Very cold.]
Somewhat calm.
Characterised or marked by air, especially bracingly cold air; windy; stormy
Somewhat hot.
(rare) Synonym of lukecold (“moderately cool”, “not very enthusiastic”).
(figurative) Cold or unfriendly in manner.
Somewhat windy, cloudy or rainy.