Stone cold
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Very cold; lacking any semblance of warmth. idiomatic
"I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later."
- 2 Lacking emotion or compassion. idiomatic
"a stone-cold killer"
- 3 Certain; definite; obvious. idiomatic
""A hike on Thursday looks a stone cold certainty," Howard Archer, chief UK economist at Global Insight, said."
Example
More examples"I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later."
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