cold

Roget category 383

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#383. Cold

noun

cold, coldness etc. adj. — frigidity, inclemency, fresco.
winter — depth of winter, hard winter — Siberia, Nova Zembla — wind-chill factor.
[forms of frozen water] ice — snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift — sleet — hail, hailstone — rime, frost — hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost — barf — glaze [U.S.], lolly [U.S.] — icicle, thick-ribbed ice — fall of snow, heavy fall — iceberg, icefloe — floe berg — glacier — nev_ee, serac^† — pruina^†.
[cold substances] freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium.
[Sensation of cold] chilliness etc. adj. — chill — shivering etc. v. — goose skin, horripilation^† — rigor — chattering of teeth — numbness, frostbite.

verb

be cold etc. adj. — shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder^†, quiver — freeze, freeze to death, perish with cold.
freeze etc. (render cold) 385 — horripilate^†, make the skin crawl, give one goose flesh.

adjective

cold, cool — chill, chilly — icy — gelid, frigid, algid^† — fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous^†, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching — clay-cold — starved etc. (made cold) 385 — chilled to the bone, shivering etc. v. — aguish, transi de froid [Fr.] — frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.
cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas — cool as a cucumber, cool as custard.
icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose^†, wintry, brumal^†, hibernal^†, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal^† — hyperborean, hyperboreal^† — icebound — frozen out.
unwarmed^†, unthawed^† — lukewarm, tepid — isocheimal^†, isocheimenal^†, isocheimic^†.
frozen, numb, frost-bitten.

adverb

coldly, bitterly etc. adj. — pierre fendre [Fr.] —

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