Word Meanings - COLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS. kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall, Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala to freeze. Cf. Cool, 1. Deprived of heat, or having a

Additional info about word: COLD

AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS. kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall, Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala to freeze. Cf. Cool, 1. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis." Milton. 2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold. 3. Not pungent or acrid. "Cold plants." Bacon 4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. A cold and unconcerned spectator. T. Burnet. No cold relation is a zealous citizen. Burke. 5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort." Shak. 6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! B. Jonson. The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene. Addison. 7. Affecting the sense of smell but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent. 8. Not sensitive; not acute. Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose. Shak. 9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COLD)

• Apathetic
• Unfeeling
• stoical
• cold
• frigid
• indifferent
• impassive
• insensible
• insensitive
• Bleak
• Blank
• bare
• open
• exposed
• stormy
• nipping
• Cool
• Cold
• unimpassioned
• calm
• self-possessed
• deliberate
• dispassioned
• collected
• apathetic
• composed
• Frigid
• inanimate
• lifeless
• passionless
• distant
• forbidding
• Gelid
• icy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COLD)

• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk

Related words: (words related to COLD)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• NIPPITATO
  Strong liquor. Beau. & Fl.
• DISTANT
  stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• EXPOSTULATOR
  One who expostulates. Lamb.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• BLANKET STITCH
  A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.
• IMPASSIVE
  Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• SNIPPACK
  The common snipe.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.