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Nouns (4)

n. the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"

n. a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"

coldness, low temperature

n. the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"

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Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (20)

cold

adj. of a seeker; far from the object sought

cold

adj. 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 up the heat"; "a cold beer"

cold

adj. 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"

cold

adj. (ineffective)

cold

adj. distant from the object of search

old

adj. having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

aloof

adj. lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave"

dry, uncordial

adj. lacking warmth or friendliness; "looked uncordial as we approached"

insensate, cold-blooded, inhuman

adj. without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"

uncaring, unaffectionate

adj. lacking affection or warm feeling; "an uncaring person"

deceased, departed, asleep, gone, at peace, at rest

adj. dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend"

Fuzzynyms (54)

bitterness, bitter

n. the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

unemotional, emotionless

adj. unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion

gallant, lofty, majestic, proud

adj. having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"

arrogant, chesty, self-important

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

unsympathetic

adj. not sympathetic or disposed toward; "unsympathetic officialdom"; "people unsympathetic to the revolution"; "his dignity made him seem aloof and unsympathetic"

callous, unfeeling, thick-skinned, indurate

adj. emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"

hardhearted, stonyhearted, unfeeling

adj. devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch"

insensitive

adj. deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients"

insensitive

adj. not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation"

uncaring

adj. lacking affection or warm feeling; "an uncaring person"

heartless

adj. devoid of courage or enthusiasm

pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpitying

adj. without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty"

atrocious, monstrous, flagitious, heinous

adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

repulsive, obscene, detestable, abhorrent, repugnant

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

abominable, execrable, detestable, odious

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

nefarious, villainous

adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"

harsh, rigorous, brutal, cruel, unkind

adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

callous, hard-boiled, hardened, case-hardened

adj. used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"

insensitive

adj. deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients"

dead, lifeless

adj. lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"

Synonyms (85)

faraway, far-off

adj. very far away in space or time; "faraway mountains"; "the faraway future"; "troops landing on far-off shores"; "far-off happier times"

farther

adj. more distant in especially space or time; "they live in the farther house"

utmost, uttermost, farthermost, furthermost

adj. (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order; "had traveled to the farthest frontier"; "don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree"; "explored the furthest reaches of space"; "the utmost tip of the peninsula"

further, farther

adj. more distant in especially degree; "nothing could be further from the truth"; "further from our expectations"; "farther from the truth"; "farther from our expectations"

isolated

adj. remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"

outlying

adj. relatively far from a center or middle; "outlying settlements"

remote, removed

adj. separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"

remote, far-off, removed

adj. separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"

cool

adj. neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat; "a cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool summer dresses"; "cool drinks"; "a cool breeze"

frozen

adj. turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold; "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; "children skating on a frozen brook"

cool

adj. psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike; "relations were cool and polite"; "a cool reception"; "cool to the idea of higher taxes"

passionless

adj. not passionate; "passionless observation of human nature"

addled

adj. (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"

bad, spoilt, spoiled

adj. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

corrupt, tainted, putrid, decomposed, rotten

adj. touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

rotting, decomposing, putrescent

adj. becoming putrid; "a trail lined by putrescent carcasses"

dry, hard

adj. dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

flyblown

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

limp, wilted

adj. not firm; "wilted lettuce"

musty, moldy, mouldy

adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

rancid

adj. (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"

nonpersonal

adj. lacking personality; "nonpersonal forces"

beetle-browed, scowling

adj. sullen or unfriendly in appearance

hostile, uncongenial, inhospitable

adj. very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"

unneighborly, unneighbourly

adj. not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor

fell, savage, vicious, barbarous, roughshod, brutal, cruel

adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

brute, beastly, bestial, brutish, cannibalic

adj. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"

brutal, cruel

adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

unfeeling, unkind, pitiless

adj. deficient in humane and kindly feelings

frigid, sexually unresponsive

adj. sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman"

loveless

adj. without love; "a loveless marriage"

unromantic

adj. neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance

bloodless, lifeless

adj. destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden

deathlike, deathly

adj. having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly pallor"

defunct

adj. having ceased to exist or live; "the will of a defunct aunt"; "a defunct Indian tribe"

doomed

adj. marked for certain death; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed"

late

adj. having died recently; "her late husband"

lifeless, exanimate

adj. deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body"

lifeless

adj. not having the capacity to support life; "a lifeless planet"

murdered

adj. killed unlawfully; "the murdered woman"; "lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier"

slain

adj. killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"

obsolete

adj. no longer in use; "obsolete words"

stillborn

adj. (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby"

stone-dead

adj. as lifeless as a stone

Antonyms (14)

heat, hotness, high temperature

n. the presence of heat

hot

adj. used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"

torrid

adj. burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot; "the torrid noonday sun"; "sultry sands of the dessert"

tropic, sultry, sweltering, sweltry, tropical

adj. of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather"

hot

adj. extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm; "a hot temper"; "a hot topic"; "a hot new book"; "a hot love affair"; "a hot argument"

torrid

adj. emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; "a torrid dance"; "torrid jazz bands"; "hot trumpets and torrid rhythms"

passionate

adj. having or expressing strong emotions

fresh

adj. recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"

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