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

1. noun. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
2. noun. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
3. noun. Not pungent or acrid.
4. noun. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
5. noun. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
6. noun. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
7. noun. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
8. noun. Not sensitive; not acute.
9. noun. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
10. noun. Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
11. noun. The relative absence of heat or warmth.
12. noun. The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
13. noun. A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
14. intransitive verb. To become cold.
15. noun. the absence of heat

    "the coldness made our breath visible"

    "come in out of the cold"

    Synonyms: coldness, frigidity, frigidness

16. noun. the sensation produced by low temperatures

    "he shivered from the cold"

    "the cold helped clear his head"

    Synonyms: coldness

17. noun. a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)

    "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"

18. adjective. lacking the warmth of life

    "cold in his grave"

19. adjective. of a seeker; far from the object sought
20. adjective. unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication

    "the boxer was out cold"

    "pass out cold"

21. adjective. feeling or showing no enthusiasm

    "a cold audience"

    "a cold response to the new play"

22. adjective. having lost freshness through passage of time

    "a cold trail"

    "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

23. adjective. 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"

24. adjective. extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion

    "a cold unfriendly nod"

    "a cold and unaffectionate person"

25. adjective. without compunction or human feeling

    "in cold blood"

    "cold-blooded killing"

    Synonyms: inhuman, insensate

26. adjective. sexually unresponsive

    "was cold to his advances"

    "a frigid woman"

    Synonyms: frigid

27. adjective. so intense as to be almost uncontrollable

    "cold fury gripped him"

28. adjective. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

    "moth-eaten theories about race"

    "stale news"

    Synonyms: dusty, stale

29. adjective. marked by errorless familiarity

    "had her lines cold before rehearsals started"

30. adjective. (color) giving no sensation of warmth

    "a cold bluish grey"

Synonyms

coldness, frigidity, frigidness, inhuman, insensate, frigid, dusty, stale

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cold:

clod

Common word forms

colds, colder, coldly, coldest, coldness

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