Coldness

cold  (kld)

adj. cold·er, cold·est

1.

a. Having a low temperature.

b. Having a temperature lower than normal body temperature.

c. Feeling no warmth; uncomfortably chilled.

2.

a. Marked by deficient heat: a cold room.

b. Being at a temperature that is less than what is required: cold oatmeal.

c. Chilled by refrigeration or ice: cold beer.

3. Lacking emotion; objective: cold logic.

4. Having no appeal to the senses or feelings: a cold decor.

5.

a. Not affectionate or friendly; aloof: a cold person; a cold nod.

b. Exhibiting or feeling no enthusiasm: a cold audience; a cold response to the new play; a concert that left me cold.

c. Devoid of sexual desire; frigid.

6. Designating a tone or color, such as pale gray, that suggests little warmth.

7. Having lost all freshness or vividness through passage of time: dogs attempting to catch a cold scent.

8.

a. Marked by or sustaining a loss of body heat: cold hands and feet.

b. Appearing to be dead; unconscious.

c. Dead: was cold in his grave.

9. Marked by unqualified certainty or sure familiarity.

10. So intense as to be almost uncontrollable: cold fury.

11. Characterized by repeated failure, especially in a sport or competitive activity: The team fell into a slump of cold shooting.

adv.

1. To an unqualified degree; totally: was cold sober.

2. With complete finality: We turned him down cold.

3. Without advance preparation or introduction: took the exam cold and passed; walked in cold and got the new job.

n.

1.

a. Relative lack of warmth.

b. The sensation resulting from lack of warmth; chill.

2. A condition of low air temperature; cold weather: went out into the cold and got a chill.

3. A viral infection characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the upper respiratory passages and usually accompanied by malaise, fever, chills, coughing, and sneezing. Also called common cold, coryza.

Idiom:

out in the cold

Lacking benefits given to others; neglected.

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[Middle English, from Old English ceald; see gel- in Indo-European roots.]

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coldly adv.

coldness n.

Synonyms: cold, arctic, chilly, cool, frigid, frosty, gelid, glacial, icy
These adjectives mean marked by a low or an extremely low temperature: cold air; an arctic climate; a chilly day; cool water; a frigid room; a frosty morning; gelid seas; glacial winds; icy hands.

Antonym: hot

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	coldness - the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" cold temperature - the somatic sensation of cold or heat
	2.	coldness - a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner" chilliness, iciness, frigidity, frigidness, coolness emotionlessness, unemotionality - absence of emotion stone - a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone" lukewarmness, tepidness - lack of passion, force or animation
	3.	coldness - the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" low temperature, cold, frigidity, frigidness pressor, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor - any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure temperature - the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) chill, gelidity, iciness - coldness due to a cold environment chilliness, coolness, nip - the property of being moderately cold; "the chilliness of early morning" frostiness - coldness as evidenced by frost cool - the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature; "the cool of early morning" high temperature, hotness, heat - the presence of heat