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What is a basic definition of cold?
Cold is an adjective that describes something that lacks heat or has a low temperature. Cold also describes someone as being unemotional or detached. As a noun, cold often refers to a respiratory illness that involves sneezing and congestion. The word cold has many other senses as an adjective, noun, and adverb.
If something is cold, it lacks heat or has a low temperature. For example, cold water would have a temperature that approaches 0 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit. A cold steak is one that hasn’t been cooked (heated) or one that has just emerged from a freezer. Cold is the opposite of hot.
In a related sense, the word cold is used to describe the feeling you have when you lack heat or are exposed to freezing conditions that remove heat from you. This feeling often involves involuntary behavior such as shivering, getting goosebumps, teeth chattering, or skin turning blue.
- Real-life examples: Ice cubes, snow, and the North Pole are examples of things that are cold. Sticking your hand into a bucket of ice water will make you feel really cold. In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter months of December, January, and February are when the weather and air get really cold.
- Used in a sentence:
- I put on a jacket and gloves because it was really cold outside.
- He turned up the thermostat after his mother said she was cold.
Related to this sense, cold can mean a lack of heat or cold weather (usually in the form of “the cold”).
- Used in a sentence: I couldn’t handle the extreme cold of the lake.
The word cold can also describe someone as being aloof, unemotional, or unwelcoming. This sense of cold is often used negatively to accuse a person of being cruel, uncaring, merciless, or lacking empathy.
- Used in a sentence: He was a cold man who rarely ever smiled.
As a noun, cold is frequently used to mean a respiratory illness that involves sneezing and congestion, often referred to as “a common cold.” When used in this sense, a person is said to have “a cold” rather than “the cold.” Colds are rarely serious. They usually involve several days of congestion in your nose or lungs, a runny nose, coughing, sneezing, or similar, minor respiratory problems.
- Used in a sentence: Jade was sneezing all day at work today because she had a cold.
Where does cold come from?
The first records of cold come from before the 950s. It ultimately comes from the Old English ceald and is related to the Old Norse kaldr, the Gothic kalds, and the Old High German kalt.
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What are some other forms related to cold?
- coldish (adjective)
- coldly (adverb)
- coldness (noun)
- overcold (adjective)
- overcoldly (adverb)
What are some synonyms for cold?
What are some words that share a root or word element with cold?
What are some words that often get used in discussing cold?
How is cold used in real life?
Cold is a very common word that most often describes something as lacking heat.
This winter everything is too cold… the hands, the feet and the hearts 🥶💙
— Mariam Ayub (@i_m_mariam) December 28, 2020
It's so cold out that while we were walking the dogs, I could feel the fluids in my eyeballs freeze.
Perfect weather! XD
— KrimsonRogue (@KrimsonRogue) December 26, 2020
Really cold right now so probably won't get around to painting today because I'm hudled up in blankets 🥶
— Meg (@AuroraBoreowlis) December 27, 2020
Try using cold!
Which of the following items is most likely to be described as being cold?
A. an ice cube
B. the Sun
C. fire
D. an erupting volcano