COLD

Pronunciation (US):

• COLD (noun)
  The noun COLD has 3 senses:

1. a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
2. the absence of heat
3. the sensation produced by low temperatures

  Familiarity information: COLD used as a noun is uncommon.

• COLD (adjective)
  The adjective COLD has 13 senses:

1. 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
2. extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
3. having lost freshness through passage of time
4. (color) giving no sensation of warmth
5. marked by errorless familiarity
6. no longer new; uninteresting
7. so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
8. sexually unresponsive
9. without compunction or human feeling
10. feeling or showing no enthusiasm
11. unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
12. of a seeker; far from the object sought
13. lacking the warmth of life

  Familiarity information: COLD used as an adjective is familiar.

• COLD (noun)

Meaning:

A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cold; common cold

Context example:

will they never find a cure for the common cold?

Hypernyms ("cold" is a kind of...):

communicable disease (a disease that can be communicated from one person to another)

respiratory disease; respiratory disorder; respiratory illness (a disease affecting the respiratory system)

Meronyms (parts of "cold"):

rhinorrhea (persistent watery mucus discharge from the nose (as in the common cold))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cold"):

head cold (a common cold affecting the nasal passages and resulting in congestion and sneezing and headache)

Meaning:

The absence of heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

low temperature; cold; frigidity; frigidness; coldness

Context examples:

the coldness made our breath visible / come in out of the cold / cold is a vasoconstrictor

Hypernyms ("cold" is a kind of...):

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))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cold"):

chill; gelidity; iciness (coldness due to a cold environment)

chilliness; coolness; nip (the property of being moderately cold)

frostiness (coldness as evidenced by frost)

cool (the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature)

Meaning:

The sensation produced by low temperatures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

coldness; cold

Context examples:

he shivered from the cold / the cold helped clear his head

Hypernyms ("cold" is a kind of...):

temperature (the somatic sensation of cold or heat)

• COLD (adjective)

Meaning:

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

Context examples:

a cold climate / a cold room / dinner has gotten cold / cold fingers / if you are cold, turn up the heat / a cold beer

Similar:

unheated; unwarmed (not having been heated or warmed)

stone-cold (completely cold)

shivery (cold enough to cause shivers)

refrigerated (made or kept cold by refrigeration)

refrigerant; refrigerating (causing cooling or freezing)

ice-cold (as cold as ice)

heatless (without generating heat)

frosty; rimed; rimy (covered with frost)

frore (very cold)

frigorific (causing cold; cooling or chilling)

acold (of persons; feeling cold)

algid (chilly)

arctic; frigid; gelid; glacial; icy; polar (extremely cold)

bleak; cutting; raw (unpleasantly cold and damp)

crisp; frosty; nipping; nippy; parky; snappy (pleasantly cold and invigorating)

Also:

frozen (turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold)

cool (neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat)

Attribute:

temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))

Antonym:

hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)

Meaning:

Extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion

Context examples:

a cold unfriendly nod / a cold and unaffectionate person / a cold impersonal manner / cold logic / the concert left me cold

Similar:

frigid; frosty; frozen; glacial; icy; wintry (devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain)

emotionless; passionless (unmoved by feeling)

Also:

passionless (not passionate)

cool (psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike)

Attribute:

emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)

Antonym:

hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)

Meaning:

Having lost freshness through passage of time

Context examples:

a cold trail / dogs attempting to catch a cold scent

Similar:

stale (showing deterioration from age)

Meaning:

(color) giving no sensation of warmth

Context example:

a cold bluish grey

Similar:

cool ((color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets)

Meaning:

Marked by errorless familiarity

Context example:

had her lines cold before rehearsals started

Similar:

perfect (being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish)

Meaning:

No longer new; uninteresting

Synonyms:

stale; cold

Context example:

cold (or stale) news

Similar:

old (of long duration; not new)

Meaning:

So intense as to be almost uncontrollable

Context example:

cold fury gripped him

Similar:

intense (in an extreme degree)

Meaning:

Sexually unresponsive

Synonyms:

frigid; cold

Context examples:

was cold to his advances / a frigid woman

Similar:

unloving (not giving or reciprocating affection)

Meaning:

Without compunction or human feeling

Synonyms:

cold-blooded; inhuman; insensate; cold

Context examples:

in cold blood / cold-blooded killing / insensate destruction

Similar:

inhumane (lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion)

Meaning:

Feeling or showing no enthusiasm

Context examples:

a cold audience / a cold response to the new play

Similar:

unenthusiastic (not enthusiastic; lacking excitement or ardor)

Meaning:

Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication

Context examples:

the boxer was out cold / pass out cold

Similar:

unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)

Meaning:

Of a seeker; far from the object sought

Similar:

far (at a great distance in time or space or degree)

Meaning:

Lacking the warmth of life

Context example:

cold in his grave

Similar:

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)