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• stone-cold
  stone-cold

  adjective

  completely cold
• stone cold
  stone cold

  Unfeeling, insensible, as in That sad story left her stone cold. This analogy was already used by Shakespeare in Henry V (2:3): “Cold as any stone.”

stone-cold

British  

adjective

1. completely cold

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adverb

1. (intensifier)

   stone-cold sober

stone cold Idioms  

1. Unfeeling, insensible, as in That sad story left her stone cold. This analogy was already used by Shakespeare in Henry V (2:3): “Cold as any stone.”

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Example Sentences

He was beaten by McIlroy in a play-off last year, but put himself in position to avenge that defeat as McIlroy's stone-cold putter loosened his grip on the tournament.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

One way to view the meteoric growth of women’s college basketball is through the career arc of its current protagonist: Caitlin Clark, the University of Iowa’s stone-cold mad bomber.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024

And Cherundolo has gotten them here with a breezy manner and an impish smile masking the competitive soul of a stone-cold killer.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Everything from stone-cold classics like "Where the Red Fern Grows" to the latest "Babysitter's Club" release, to be devoured in a day.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2023

I could see his mind working, stone-cold, grinding like a millwheel.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner