Nouns (4)
chili, chilli, chile, chili pepper
n. very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (3)
chilly
adj. not characterized by emotion; "a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues"-C.W.Cunningham
chill
adj. uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather"
distant
adj. "relations were cool and polite"
Fuzzynyms (60)
bitter, biting
adj. causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"
crisp, snappy, frosty, nipping, nippy
adj. pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term)
hoar, hoary, frosted, frosty, rimy
adj. covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner
sharp, crisp, razor-sharp
adj. very clearly delineated; "razor-sharp definition"
arctic, freezing, polar, icy, frigid, gelid, glacial, ice-cold
adj. extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather"
cutting, raw, illogical, bleak
adj. unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
unfriendly
adj. not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"
icy, frigid, glacial, frosty, wintry
adj. devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile"
unsociable
adj. not inclined to society or companionship; "an unsociable nature...shy and reserved"; "generally unsociable except with intimate friends"; "unsociable behavior"; "an unsociable neighborhood"
inhibited
adj. held back or restrained or prevented; "in certain conditions previously inhibited conditioned reactions can reappear"
inhospitable
adj. unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"
unapproachable, distant, aloof, offish
adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"
standoffish, unfriendly
adj. lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner"
swaggering, prideful, supercilious, lordly, disdainful, haughty, sniffy
adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
recluse, reclusive, withdrawn
adj. withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"
unresponsive
adj. "his dignity made him see aloof and unsympathetic"
opponent, opposing, antagonistic, antipathetic, antipathetical, opposed
adj. characterized by antagonism or antipathy; "slaves antagonistic to their masters"; "antipathetic factions within the party"
hostile
adj. characterized by enmity or ill will; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions"
Synonyms (25)
cool, impassive, imperturbable
adj. having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
matter-of-fact, prosaic
adj. not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
philosophical, philosophic
adj. characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment; "philosophical resignation"; "a philosophic attitude toward life"
stolid, phlegmatic, phlegmatical
adj. showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"
stoic, stoical
adj. seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer"
unblinking
adj. showing no visible emotion; "stood unblinking and accepted a sentence of a year"
air-cooled
adj. cooled by a flow of air; "an air-cooled engine"
air-conditioned
adj. cooled by air conditioning
chilled
adj. made cold: "a frosty glass of chilled lemonade"
cooled
adj. made or become cool or made cool as specified; often used as a combining form: "air-cooled"; "the cooled milk was put in the refrigerator"
iced
adj. cooled with ice: "iced tea"
caller, cooling
adj. providing coolness; "a cooling breeze"; "`caller' is a Scottish term as in `a caller breeze'"
temperate, moderately cold
adj. comfortably cool: "a cool room"
precooled, pre-cooled
adj. cooled in advance
water-cooled
adj. kept cool or designed to be kept cool by means of water especially circulating water; "a water-cooled engine"
Antonyms (2)
warm
adj. having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat; "a warm body"; "a warm room"; "a warm climate"; "a warm coat"
warm
adj. psychologically warm; friendly and responsive; "a warm greeting"; "a warm personality"; "warm support"
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