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Cold

adjective

(compar. colder; superl. coldest)

1.

Having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration. "A cold room" , "Dinner has gotten cold" , "Cold fingers" , "If you are cold, turn up the heat" , "A cold beer"

2.

Extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion. "A cold and unaffectionate person" , "A cold impersonal manner" , "Cold logic" , "The concert left me cold"

3.

Having lost freshness through passage of time. "Dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

4.

(color) giving no sensation of warmth.

5.

Marked by errorless familiarity.

6.

Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new. Synonyms: dusty, moth-eaten, stale. "Stale news"

7.

So intense as to be almost uncontrollable.

8.

Sexually unresponsive. Synonym: frigid. "A frigid woman"

9.

Without compunction or human feeling. Synonyms: cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate. "Cold-blooded killing" , "Insensate destruction"

10.

Feeling or showing no enthusiasm. "A cold response to the new play"

11.

Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication. "Pass out cold"

12.

Of a seeker; far from the object sought.

13.

Lacking the warmth of life.

noun

1.

A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs). Synonym: common cold.

2.

The absence of heat. Synonyms: coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature. "Come in out of the cold" , "Cold is a vasoconstrictor"

3.

The sensation produced by low temperatures. Synonym: coldness. "The cold helped clear his head"

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"Cold" Quotes from Famous Books

... o'clock, still found her in the dark sombre parlour, every now and then pacing the floor of the room. The fire had gone out, and, though it was now the middle of April, she began to feel the cold. But she would not go to bed before she had written a line to Alice. To her brother a message by telegraph would of course be sent the next morning; as also would she send a message to her aunt. But to Alice she would write, though it might ...

— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope

... and it was a boy; and water was poured over it, and it was called Olaf after the grandfather. Astrid remained all summer here in concealment; but when the nights became dark, and the day began to shorten and the weather to be cold, she was obliged to take to the land, along with Thorolf and a few other men. They did not seek for houses unless in the night-time, when they came to them secretly; and they spoke to nobody. One evening, towards dark, they came to Oprustader, where Astrid's father ...

— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson

... greeted with the slightest welcoming applause. Immediately in front of the stage facing Mr. Beecher were several leading ex-generals of the Confederate army, among them General Fitz-Hugh Lee. Mr. Beecher surveyed the cold and critical audience for a moment, and then stepping directly in front of General Lee, he said, 'I have seen pictures of General Fitz-Hugh Lee, and judge you are the man; am I right?' General Lee was taken ...

— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis

... poet. As he had drawn beasts and trees and stones to listen to the music of his lyre, so Christ, with persuasive sweetness and compelling force, drew men more savage than beasts, more rooted in the earth than trees, more cold than stones, to listen to and follow him. As Orpheus caused even the kingdom of Death to render back the lost, so Christ drew the souls of men from the very gates of hell, and made the grave restore its dead. And thus from the old heathen story the Christian drew new suggestions ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various

... the superstition of her old-maidenhood concerning love, really thought it cold-blooded and shocking; but she said, ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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