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(color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish gray" cool marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started" perfect no longer new; uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news" old so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him" intense sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman" unloving without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" inhumane extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion; "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold" emotionless, frigid used of physical coldness; having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn u acold, algid, arctic, bleak, crisp, frigorific, frore, frosty, ice-cold, refrigerant, shivery, stone-cold, unheated, heatless, refrigerated having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent" stale feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play" unenthusiastic unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold" unconscious of a seeker; far from the object sought far lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave" dead a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?" the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" |
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