Thesaurus:cold

Thesaurus

cold

English

Adjective

Sense: low in temperature

Synonyms

• algid
• Arctic
• Baltic
• benumbed
• bitter    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bleak
• bone-chilling
• boreal
• brass monkeys
• brisk
• brumal
• chill
• chilled
• chilly
• clay-cold
• cold
• cold as a mackerel
• cold as a well-digger's arse
• cold as a witch's kiss
• cold as a witch's teat
• cold as a witch's tit
• cold as charity
• cold as ice
• cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• cool
• crisp
• drafty
• freezing
• frigid
• frosty
• frore
• frozen
• gelid
• glacial
• hiemal
• icy
• inclement
• nesh
• nippy
• parky (UK)
• polar
• shivering
• sleety
• snowy
• taters
• wintry

Antonyms

• hot    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• cold snap
• frigidization
• Jack Frost
• one-dog night
• wind chill

Further reading

• “383. cold” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “cold” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.