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Adjectives (8)
crisp, snappy, frosty, 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)
barbed, biting, pointed, pungent
adj. capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
Fuzzynyms (30)
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"
chill, chilly
adj. uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather"
energizing, bracing, tonic, brisk, fresh, refreshing
adj. imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air"
fresh
adj. recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"
sharp, crisp, razor-sharp
adj. very clearly delineated; "razor-sharp definition"
jeering, derisive, derisory, mocking
adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"
insulting, scornful, disdainful, contemptuous
adj. expressing extreme contempt
bitter, acrimonious, rancorous, resentful
adj. marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"
corrosive, caustic, erosive, vitriolic
adj. of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
poignant
adj. keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety"
Synonyms (45)
acold
adj. of persons; feeling cold; "Poor Tom's acold"- Shakespeare
algid
adj. chilly; "a person who is algid is marked by prostration and has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure"
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"
bitter, biting
adj. causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"
cutting, raw, illogical, bleak
adj. unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
chilled, refrigerated
adj. made or kept cold by refrigeration; "keep the milk refrigerated"; "a refrigerated truck"
shivering, chilled
adj. vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"
frore
adj. very cold; "whatever the evenings be--frosty and frore or warm and wet"
hoar, hoary, frosted, frosty, rimy
adj. covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner
iced
adj. "iced tea"
sharp, keen, piercing, toothed
adj. as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
parky
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)
refrigerant, refrigerating
adj. causing cooling or freezing; "a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide"
shivery
adj. cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather"
stone-cold
adj. completely cold; "by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold"
unheated, unwarmed
adj. not having been heated or warmed; "an unheated room"; "unwarmed rolls"
ironic, ironical
adj. characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"
mordant, saturnine, sardonic
adj. bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
satiric, satirical
adj. exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine"
Antonyms (1)
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"
nipping
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