Dictionary Entry
cold
cold is a 4-letter English word with 30 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 30 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
- 2noun
Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
- 3noun
Not pungent or acrid.
- 4noun
Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
- 5noun
Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
- 6noun
Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
- 7noun
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
- 8noun
Not sensitive; not acute.
- 9noun
Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
- 10noun
Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
- 11noun
The relative absence of heat or warmth.
- 12noun
The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
- 13noun
A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
- 14intransitive verb
To become cold.
- 15noun
the absence of heat
"the coldness made our breath visible"
"come in out of the cold"
Synonyms
- 16noun
the sensation produced by low temperatures
"he shivered from the cold"
"the cold helped clear his head"
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- 17noun
a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
"will they never find a cure for the common cold?"
- 18adjective
lacking the warmth of life
"cold in his grave"
- 19adjective
of a seeker; far from the object sought
- 20adjective
unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
"the boxer was out cold"
"pass out cold"
- 21adjective
feeling or showing no enthusiasm
"a cold audience"
"a cold response to the new play"
- 22adjective
having lost freshness through passage of time
"a cold trail"
"dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
- 23adjective
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 climate"
"a cold room"
- 24adjective
extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
"a cold unfriendly nod"
"a cold and unaffectionate person"
- 25adjective
without compunction or human feeling
"in cold blood"
"cold-blooded killing"
- 26adjective
sexually unresponsive
"was cold to his advances"
"a frigid woman"
Synonyms
- 27adjective
so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
"cold fury gripped him"
- 28adjective
lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
"moth-eaten theories about race"
"stale news"
- 29adjective
marked by errorless familiarity
"had her lines cold before rehearsals started"
- 30adjective
(color) giving no sensation of warmth
"a cold bluish grey"
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