Thesaurus:cold

English

Adjective

Sense: low in temperature

Synonyms

• algid
• Arctic
• Baltic
• boreal
• brass monkeys
• brumal
• chill
• chilled
• chilly
• clay-cold
• cold
• cold as a mackerel
• cold as charity
• freezing
• frosty
• frore
• frozen
• gelid
• glacial
• hiemal
• icy
• inclement
• nesh
• nippy
• parky (UK)
• polar
• sleety
• snowy
• taters
• wintry

Antonyms

• hot     [⇒ thesaurus]
• warm     [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

Mildly cold: not very cold

• brisk
• cool
• crisp
• drafty

Very cold

• benumbed
• bitter     [⇒ thesaurus]
• bleak
• bone-chilling
• cold as ice
• cold as a well-digger's arse
• cold as a witch's kiss
• cold as a witch's teat
• cold as a witch's tit
• cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• frigid

Coordinate terms

• tepid
• lukewarm

Various

• cold snap
• frigidization
• Jack Frost
• one-dog night
• shivering
• three-dog night
• wind chill

Further reading