Synonyms for coldest
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : kohld |
| Phonetic Transcription : koʊld |
Top 10 synonyms for coldest Other synonyms for the word coldest
- algid
- apathetic
- arctic
- below freezing
- below zero
- benumbed
- biting
- blasting
- boreal
- brumal
- chill
- cold-blooded
- cutting
- dead
- emotionless
- frore
- gelid
- glacial
- have goose bumps
- hawkish
- hiemal
- hyperborean
- icebox
- iced
- icy
- impersonal
- imperturbable
- inclement
- indifferent
- inhibited
- inhospitable
- intense
- joyless
- keen
- lukewarm
- matter-of-fact
- nipping
- nippy
- numbed
- numbing
- one-dog night
- passionless
- penetrating
- phlegmatic
- piercing
- polar
- raw
- reserved
- reticent
- rimy
- severe
- sharp
- shivery
- Siberian
- sleety
- snappy
- snowy
- spiritless
- standoffish
- stinging
- stony
- two-dog night
- unconcerned
- undemonstrative
- unenthusiastic
- unfeeling
- unimpassioned
- unmoved
- unresponsive
- unsympathetic
- wintry
Définition of coldest
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.
- adj chilly, freezing
- adj aloof, unresponsive
- Because generally there is a periodical frost in the month of May, and it is coldest from the 11th to the 13th.
- Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
- That night, it appears, was one of the coldest that had been experienced for many years past.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- It was, I think, one of the coldest and most miserable mornings I ever experienced.
- Extract from : « Adventures and Recollections » by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
- And this, chanted again and again, would have made the coldest care.
- Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
- “If you wish,” replied Leopold at his haughtiest and coldest.
- Extract from : « The Princess Virginia » by C. N. Williamson
- It was from the head of the Cabinet, and in the coldest tone imaginable.
- Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
- This is one of the coldest days of this most damnable and interminable winter.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- The winter of 1942-43 was one of the coldest ever known here.
- Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 » by Various
- A gray dawn was breaking, and this is the coldest and bleakest hour of the day.
- Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace
- This has been the coldest day of the season in this latitude.
- Extract from : « The Citizen-Soldier » by John Beatty
Antonyms for coldest
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