English word

Cold

Synonyms for cold

Closest evidence-backed alternatives.

  • chilly
  • cool
  • freezing
  • frigid
  • icy
  • chill
  • frozen
  • frosty
  • glacial
  • arctic
  • wintry
  • hard
  • nippy
  • boreal
  • polar
  • icy-cold
  • hyperborean
  • numbing
  • siberian

Synonyms by context

(of the weather) Of a low temperature

adjective

  • snowy
  • crisp

(of a person) Having the sensation of coldness often to the point of being uncomfortable

adjective

  • chilled
  • numb
  • algid
  • shivery
  • numbed
  • benumbed

Showing no affection or having a lack of emotion

adjective

  • unwelcoming
  • unsympathetic
  • forbidding
  • stony
  • lukewarm
  • haughty

Weather conditions characterized by low temperatures

noun

  • chilliness
  • coldness
  • frigidity
  • frostiness
  • iciness
  • inclemency
  • freeze
  • frozenness
  • gelidity
  • gelidness

A common viral illness

noun

  • flu
  • influenza
  • bug
  • virus
  • head cold
  • infection
  • grippe
  • coryza
  • respiratory infection

A physical condition resulting from being outside in severely cold weather without adequate protection

noun

  • exposure
  • frostbite
  • hypothermia
  • extreme cold
  • intense cold

Suddenly, without being anticipated

adverb

  • unawares
  • suddenly
  • unexpectedly
  • unaware
  • unprepared
  • unanticipatedly
  • napping
  • aback
  • abruptly
  • by surprise

Phrases

  • below freezing
  • below zero
  • bitterly cold
  • brass monkeys
  • chilled to the bone
  • cold as ice
  • extremely cold
  • freezing cold
  • frozen over
  • frozen to the marrow
  • iced over
  • iced up
  • intensely cold
  • like a sheet of glass
  • one-dog night
  • smooth as glass
  • three-dog night
  • two-dog night
  • very cold