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Antonyms for out cold
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : kohld |
| Phonetic Transcription : koʊld |
Definition of out cold
Origin :- Old English cald (Anglian), ceald (West Saxon) "cold, cool" (adj.), "coldness," from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz (cf. Old Frisian and Old Saxon kald, Old High German and German kalt, Old Norse kaldr, Gothic kalds "cold"), possibly a past participle adjective of *kal-/*kol-, from PIE root *gel-/*gol- "cold" (cf. Latin gelare "to freeze," gelu "frost," glacies "ice").
- Meaning "not strong" (in reference to scent) is 1590s, from hunting. Cold front in weather is from 1921. Cold-call in the sales pitch sense first recorded 1972. Japanese has two words for "cold:" samui for coldness in the atmosphere or environment; tsumetai for things which are cold to touch, and also in the figurative sense, with reference to personalities, behaviors, etc.
- As in lifeless : adj not living, not containing living things
- As in asleep : adj unconscious
- As in unaware : adj ignorant
- As in passed out : adj unconscious
- As in comatose : adj unconscious
- Ed Symes, he noticed with quiet satisfaction, was now out cold.
- Extract from : « Pagan Passions » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- Have we been out cold this long, or did we come to and walk back to here?
- Extract from : « Dave Dawson at Truk » by Robert Sydney Bowen
- When the rest of the boys came in, everybody was out cold on the floor.
- Extract from : « Instant of Decision » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- I was just walking along, and the next instant I was out cold.
- Extract from : « Dave Dawson at Casablanca » by Robert Sydney Bowen
- A smile appeared on the man's lean face: the guard was out—cold.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories, July, 1931 » by Various
- He laid us out cold, said that we were as standardized as Fords and that we were ashamed of anything intellectual.
- Extract from : « The Plastic Age » by Percy Marks
- There was a large bruise on the side of his head and he was out cold, but he was still breathing.
- Extract from : « A Knyght Ther Was » by Robert F. Young
- "While he was out cold I gave him a shot of whiskey to bring him 'round," Lindsay told her.
- Extract from : « The Ambassador » by Samuel Kimball Merwin
- He was out cold, then, for several Earth-days, and only dimly aware for many days afterward.
- Extract from : « Big Pill » by Raymond Zinke Gallun
- Freddy and he couldn't have been out cold from drugs from Monday night until Friday.
- Extract from : « Dave Dawson at Truk » by Robert Sydney Bowen
Synonyms for out cold
- anesthetized
- asleep
- bare
- barren
- blacked out
- blind
- brute
- careless
- catching some zzz's
- caught napping
- cold
- comatose
- conked
- crashed
- daydreaming
- dead
- dead to the world
- deaf
- deaf to
- deceased
- defunct
- departed
- desert
- doped
- dopey
- dormant
- dozing
- dreaming
- drowsy
- drugged
- empty
- exanimate
- extinct
- faint
- flaked out
- forgetful
- getting shut-eye
- hebetudinous
- heedless
- hibernating
- in a daze
- in dreamland
- in repose
- inactive
- inanimate
- inattentive
- incognizant
- inconscious
- inconversant
- inert
- inorganic
- insensate
- insensible
- knocked out
- late
- lethargic
- mooning
- napping
- negligent
- nescient
- not all there
- not cognizant
- oblivious
- on the kip
- out
- out cold
- out like a light
- out of it
- out to lunch
- reposing
- resting
- sacked out
- senseless
- sleeping
- sleepy
- sluggish
- slumbering
- slumberous
- snoozing
- snoring
- somnolent
- soporose
- spacey
- sterile
- stupefied
- stupid
- stuporous
- taking forty winks
- torpid
- unacquainted
- unconcerned
- unconscious
- unenlightened
- unfamiliar
- uninformed
- uninhabited
- uninstructed
- unknowing
- unmindful
- unsuspecting
- unwitting
- vegged out
- waste
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