Word Definition

Cold

  1. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
  2. To become cold.
  3. Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
  4. Not sensitive; not acute.
  5. The relative absence of heat or warmth.
  6. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
  7. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
  8. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
  9. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
  10. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
  11. Not pungent or acrid.
  12. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
  13. The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
  14. A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.