Stone-cold

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Completely cold.

    "By the time I returned to my desk, my tea was stone-cold."

  2. 2
    Without emotion.

    "He was a stone-cold killer: he didn't flinch as he took the shot."

  3. 3
    Absolute; incomparable.

    "With an ace-high flush on an unpaired board, he had the stone-cold nuts."

Adjective
  1. 1
    completely cold wordnet

Synonyms

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Example

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"Please, I beg of you, do not use the phrase "stone-cold sober" ever again in any song lyrics."

Related phrases

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