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Definitions of cold:

noun: the sensation produced by low temperatures
Example: "He shivered from the cold"
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?"
noun: the absence of heat
Example: "The coldness made our breath visible"
adjective: used of physical coldness; 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; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
Example: "A cold unfriendly nod"
adjective: without compunction or human feeling
Example: "In cold blood"
adjective: sexually unresponsive
Example: "Was cold to his advances"
adjective: so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
Example: "Cold fury gripped him"
adjective: no longer new; uninteresting
Example: "Cold (or stale) news"
adjective: marked by errorless familiarity
Example: "Had her lines cold before rehearsals started"
adjective: (color) giving no sensation of warmth
Example: "A cold bluish gray"
adjective: lacking the warmth of life
Example: "Cold in his grave"
adjective: of a seeker; far from the object sought
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"

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to cold: (330 results)
Synonyms:
acold, algid, arctic, bleak, chilled, cold-blooded, coldness, common cold, cool, crisp, cutting, dead, emotionless, far, freezing, frigid, frigorific, frore, frosted, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, heatless, ice-cold, iced, icy, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, intense, low temperature, nipping, nippy, parky, passionless, perfect, polar, raw, refrigerant, refrigerated, refrigerating, rimed, rimy, shivering, shivery, snappy, stale, stone-cold, unconscious, unenthusiastic, unheated, unloving, unwarmed, wintry

More general:
respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, temperature

More specific:
chill, chilliness, coolness, frostiness, gelidity, head cold, iciness

Antonyms:
heat, high temperature, hot, hotness

Often used in the same context:
snow, winter, warm, dark, ice, spring, white, empty, freeze, warmth, leaves, bitter, chilly, fresh, low, scary, shiver, storm, weather, birth, cost, hockey, silent, skies, thunder, animals, bone, chair, dry, gray, heavy, pop, ruin, shower, stare, wear, between, bikini, boot, cent, coat, col, corpse, damp, doctor, dough, express, falling, finish, flight, flu, frost, glory, innocent, joe, mountains, north, numb, penguin, rude, sail, skate, sounds, soup, station, streets, treat, tundra, tv, warming, woods, wrists

Appears in the definition of:
acrocyanosis, air out, alaska crab, alaska king crab, alaskan king crab, alpha brass, alpine besseya, american lobster, american watercress, amphibian, ancient pine, antarctica, antarctic continent, aura, bactrian camel, besseya alpina, bise, biting, bize, blueish, bluish, bony, bracken, cadaverous, camelus bactrianus, cardamine rotundifolia, catch cold, chap, chapped, chilblain, chilblains, cisco, class reptilia, cloche, coaster, cod, codfish, cold-bloodedly, cold cuts, cold frame, coldly, cold snap, cold spell, cold stuffed tomato, cold wave, cold weather, condensate, condensation, coregonus artedi, cough, crab cocktail, cracked, cryaesthesia, cryesthesia, cryoanaesthesia, cryoanesthesia, cryosurgery, cyperus, dacrydium colensoi, dicamptodon, dicamptodontid, dither, dormouse, el nino southern oscillation, emaciated, exposure, extinct, extinguished, family lithodidae, family saxifragaceae, feel, flip, freeze down, freeze out, galantine, gaunt, genus cyperus, genus woodsia, grampus, haggard, ice water, icily, immersion foot, in cold blood, insulate, killer, killer whale, king crab, lake herring, laminariales, liparis liparis, lithodidae, luncheon meat, lunch meat, macedoine, maine lobster, mammothermography, marlin, mixing faucet, mountain watercress, northern lobster, nurse, orca, orcinus orca, order laminariales, overshoe, ozone, pernio, phenacomys, pinched, pinus longaeva, podsol, podsolic soil, podsol soil, podzol, podzol soil, pteridium esculentum, quaking, quenched, quivering, raja radiata, raw weather, raynaud's sign, remoulade sauce, reptile, reptilia, reptilian, roughened, salmonid, saxifragaceae, saxifrage family, seal, seasnail, sea snail, sea wolf, shake, shaking, shaky, shoot-down, shrimp cocktail, shudder, siberia, skeletal, ski mask, smelt, snailfish, snowsuit, solar trap, somatosense, spearfish, sphenisciform seabird, squall line, steam bath, stuffed tomato, suffuse, suntrap, swage block, sweat, sweet cicely, swordfish, tarwood, thermoreceptor, thermos, thermos bottle, thorny skate, thrilling, tin disease, tin pest, tin plague, tramontana, tramontane, tremble, trembling, trenchfoot, turkish bath, vapor bath, vapour bath, vasoconstrictor, vent, ventilate, wasted, watch cap, weather strip, weather stripping, whitefish, without emotion, work at, work on, xiphias gladius

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