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(adj)
(literary) Very cold; icy or frosty.
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Cold, chilly; icy.
(with above or below) The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.
(of a thing) Having a low temperature.
Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.
Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.
Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
Of, or relating to glaciers.
(geography) Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
(geography) Pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet, characterised by extreme cold and an icy landscape.
Not loving.
As cold as ice; very cold.
Causing mild fear.
Cold enough to cause discomfort.
With ice added.
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
(colloquial) Extremely cold.
(simile) Very cold.
(rare) Alternative spelling of icy. [Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.]
Very cold.
Characterised or marked by cold or coldness
(figurative) Cold or unfriendly in manner.
(n)
Senses relating to something brittle.
(rare) Made wintry; in a cold or icy state.
(simile) Very cold (in temperature, emotionally, etc.).
(simile, colloquial) Very cold.
(rare) Resembling or characteristic of a fridge.
(rare) Caused by cold wind; describing forms of arthralgia etc. in traditional Chinese medicine.
(Scotland, Northern England) Very cold; shrivelled with cold.
(simile, colloquial, vulgar) Very cold.
Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy.
(simile, rare, humorous) Very cold, whether in temperature or in demeanour.
(slang) Showing nipples.
Resembling frost or some aspect of it.
(informal, weather) Rather cold.
Resembling or characteristic of a cold (the viral illness).
(of wind or weather) Cold, piercing.
Cold; chilly.
Covered in frost; frosty.
Somewhat cold.
Bound or confined by frost.
Of or relating to winter.
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
(adv)
In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
Resembling or characteristic of winter; wintry.
Characterised or marked by coolness.
(obsolete) Resembling icicles.
(dialect, Southern British) Of a person, cold (in temperature); shrivelled with cold.
Resembling ice.
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
(slang) Somewhat chill (relaxed or cool).
(of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
Covered with frost
Characterised or marked by air, especially bracingly cold air; windy; stormy
Subjected to windchill.
(colloquial) Quite cool.
Synonym of cold as a witch's tit.
(of bones or joints) Stiffened or inflexible.
An island in County Mayo, the largest of the Irish isles.
Characteristic of or occurring during winter.
Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
Marked by overly cold and snowy conditions; blizzardlike.
Having small, tight curls; frizzy.
Characteristic of winter.
(botany) Somewhat rigid or stiff.
(literary, rare) Wintry.
Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
Alternative spelling of nipply. [(slang) Very cold.]
Relating to, or characteristic of, a blizzard; blizzardous.
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Highly sensitive to cold temperatures.
(obsolete) Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.
Somewhat stiff (all senses).
(now rare) Frosty; frozen.
Belonging to winter; winterlike; wintry.
Malevolent; cold and cruel.
Snowy; resembling snow.
Having frosting.
Having a crimped appearance; frizzly.
(dialectal, of weather) Unpleasant; unsettled, windy, showery
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
(archaic) Causing fever.
Obsolete form of fiery. [Of or relating to fire.]
Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
chapped; cracked from cold; affected with chilblains.
(rare) Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea) and less enthusiastic than lukewarm would imply.
Hung with icicles.
(rare) Resembling or characteristic of icing.
(rare, Yorkshire, of weather) Autumnal; cold or chilly.
Somewhat rigid or stiff.
Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming.
(dated) Resembling or characteristic of a blizzard.
An angry or fierce stare.
Frightening; causing fear.
(v)
(transitive) To numb; benumb; stiffen or paralyse with cold or fear
Affected by frostbite.