chilly
[ chil-ee ]
/ ˈtʃɪl i /
adjective, chill·i·er, chill·i·est.
mildly cold or producing a sensation of cold; causing shivering; chill: a chilly breeze.
feeling cold; sensitive to cold: Her hands were chilly.
without warmth of feeling; cool: a chilly reply.
producing or likely to produce a feeling of fear; frightening: He told a chilly story of ghosts and murder.
adverb
Also chill·i·ly. in a chill manner: The wind blew chilly.
QUIZZES
CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PART OF SPEECH QUIZ!
How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text!
Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.
Question 1 of 10
In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.
synonym study for chilly
1. See cold.
OTHER WORDS FROM chilly
chill·i·ness, nounWords nearby chilly
chilling, chilling effect, chilliwack, chillon, chillum, chilly, chilly bin, chillán, chilo-, chiloe island, chilognath
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for chilly
British Dictionary definitions for chilly
chilly
/ (ˈtʃɪlɪ) /
adjective -lier or -liest
causing or feeling cool or moderately cold
without warmth; unfriendly
(of people) sensitive to cold
Derived forms of chilly
chilliness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012