Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Noun

Adverb

The word "cold" can be used as adjective, adjective, noun and adverb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

amiable baking heat hot hot prepared warm warmth

Typical Location

freezer fridge outerspace space top of mountain

Capable Of

cause shivering make cough and sneeze make person sneeze still frogs

Causes

goose bumps shivers

Causes Desire

light fire spit stay in bed

Coordinate Terms

freeze frost

Defined As

opposite of hot opposite of warm

Derived Terms

Cold Ash Cold Ashton Cold Christmas Cold Hiendley Cold Kirby Cold Lake Cold Meece Cold Norton Cold Spring Cold Warrior cold cold warrior Coldspring Colombian cold Coniston Cold a cold day in July acold anticold bitter cold blow hot and cold bright lights and cold steel cold cold steel and bright lights bring someone out in a cold sweat bust ass cold catch a cold catch cold catch one's death of cold chest cold clap cold clay-cold cold abscess cold agglutinin disease cold antibody cold approach cold as a mackerel cold as a wagon tire cold as a well-digger's arse cold as a witch's kiss cold as a witch's tit cold cold as a witch's teat cold cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra cold as balls cold as charity cold as death cold as ice cold as the grave cold blob cold blood cold boot cold boot attack cold brew coffee cold cold brew cold call cold camera cold cap cold capping cold carl cold case cold cash cold cathode cold cold-cathode cold chain cold chills cold chips cold chisel cold cock cold cold-cock cold coffee cold collation cold comfort cold cook cold cream cold cuts cold cold-cuts cold cold cut cold dark matter cold day in Hell cold deck cold dish cold drink money cold drop cold duck cold email cold emailing cold empathy cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey cold extraction cold feet cold finger cold fire cold fish cold flour cold food powder cold forming cold frame cold front cold fusion cold gruel cold hand cold hands, warm heart cold hard cash cold in one's grave cold iron cold launch cold light cold meat cold meat box cold meat cart cold meat train cold moon cold one cold open cold pack cold patch cold pig cold pole cold press cold prickly cold rain process cold read cold reading cold roll cold rubber cold sell cold shock response cold shoe cold short cold cold-short cold shoulder cold shoulder sleeve cold shower cold shut cold cold-shut cold sleeper cold smoking cold snap cold sober cold sore cold spell cold spot cold start cold steel cold storage cold store cold sweat cold tail cold tap cold transfer cold trap cold treatment cold trot cold turkey cold ulcer cold urticaria cold virus cold wallet cold war cold wave cold weapon cold weld cold welding cold without cold work cold working cold-aridiphilous cold-avoidant cold cold avoidant cold-back cold cold back cold-blooded cold-brew coffee cold-conk cold-drawn cold-email cold-eyed cold-hearted cold-livered cold-natured cold-press cold-pressed cold-sensitive cold-shoulder cold-smoked salmon coldbeer coldcock colden coldhouse coldie coldish coldlike coldly coldness coldproof coldsleep cold cold sleep coldsome coldtrap coldward coldwater coldwater flat cold cold-water flat cold cold water flat coldwave coldwork coldworking come in from the cold common cold cut someone cold down cold encolden freezing cold get cold feet give someone the cold shoulder go down like a cup of cold sick grow cold have no fear of ice cold beer head cold hot and cold ice-cold cold ice cold icecold in cold blood in from the cold in the cold light of day is your head cold key-cold leave someone cold leave someone out in the cold my cold, dead hands noncold one's blood runs cold one-cold out cold overcold paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria pole of cold pour cold water over revenge is a dish best served cold rose cold run hot and cold stone-cold cold stone cold cold stonecold stone-cold fox stone-cold sober stop cold supercold take cold throw cold water on cold pour cold water on ultracold

Distinct From

heat hot warm

Has Part

effect of freezing

Context

databases medicine painting slang

Has Property

brisk whereas heat can stifling

Subevents

can snow rain might freezing

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

communicable disease pressor respiratory disease respiratory disorder respiratory illness temperature vasoconstrictive vasoconstrictor

Type Of (IsA)

adjective cause by virus communicable disease discription of temperature disease mild illness respiratory disease sickness temperature

Not Has Property

hot

Receives Action

avoided by wearing winter jacket measured in degrees

Related Terms

Jack Frost cold snap cool fresh frigidization lukewarm one-dog night tepid three-dog night wind chill

Related Terms

acrid bluish brr chill chilling chilly climate coldness compassion congestion consciousness cool cool temp degrees description dispassionate distant extra extra cool feel feeling fever finality fire frank freezer freezing freezing feel freezing weather fresh frigid frozen got heartless heat honest hot ice ice snow icy illness impartial in winter life like like ice little little heat low low temperature lukewarm nasal north north pole partisan passage passionless pole prejudiced preparation pungent relative relative description ruthless shivering sickness snow temp temperature tepid unfeeling unprepared very very cool viral warm weather winter winter temperature wintery zero zero degrees

Similar Terms

acold acold algid algid arctic bleak chilly cool cool crisp cutting cutting dead dead emotionless emotionless far far freeze frigid frigid frigorific frigorific frore frore frosty frosty frozen gelid glacial glacial heatless heatless ice cold ice-cold icy inhumane intense intense nipping nipping nippy parky parky passionless perfect perfect polar raw refrigerant refrigerated refrigerated refrigerating refrigerating rimed rimy shivery shivery snappy stale stale stone cold stone-cold unconscious unconscious unenthusiastic unenthusiastic unheated unheated unloving unoriginal unwarmed wintry

Synonym Network

aloof chilled coldness common cold frigid insensate moth eaten unprepared

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