1. Having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
   "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer"; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"
    
2. Without human warmth or emotion
   "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold"; "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"
    
3. Feeling or showing no enthusiasm
   "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play"
    
4. Without compunction or human feeling
   "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing";
   - cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
    
5. Sexually unresponsive
   "was cold to his advances";
   - frigid
    
6. Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
   "cold news";
   - stale, dusty, moth-eaten
    
7. Having lost freshness through passage of time
   "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
    
8. (colour) giving no sensation of warmth
   "a cold bluish grey"
    
9. Marked by errorless familiarity
   "had her lines cold before rehearsals started"
    
10. So intense as to be almost uncontrollable
    "cold fury gripped him"
     
11. Unconscious from a blow, shock or intoxication
    "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold"
     
12. Of a seeker; far from the object sought
    "The children playing hide-and-seek were cold in their search"
     
13. Lacking the warmth of life
    "cold in his grave"

1. The absence of heat
   "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor";
   - coldness, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness
    
2. The sensation produced by low temperatures
   "the cold helped clear his head"; "he shivered from the cold";
   - coldness
    
3. A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
   "will they never find a cure for the common cold?";
   - common cold

Sounds like: coaled

Derived forms: colder, coldest, colds

See also: acold [archaic], algid, arctic, bleak, chill [informal], chilly, cool, crisp, cutting, dead, emotionalism, emotionality, emotionless, far, frigid, frigorific, frore [archaic], frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, heatless, ice-cold, icy, inhumane, intense, meh [informal], nipping, nippy [informal], parky [Brit, informal], passionless, perfect, polar, raw, refrigerant, refrigerated, refrigerating, rimed, rimy, shivery, snappy [informal], stale, stone-cold, temperature, unconscious, unenthused, unenthusiastic, unheated, unloving, unoriginal, unwarmed, wintry

Type of: communicable disease, pressor, respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness, temperature, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor

Antonym: high temperature, hot

Encyclopedia: Cold, Cold Heart