cold

adjective22

1. •
   not warm at all, and having little or no heat

   • A cold wind whistled through the trees.
2. •
   Causing the air to be cold.

   • The forecast is that it will be very cold today.
3. •
   Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

   • She was so cold she was shivering.
4. •
   Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.

   • She shot me a cold glance before turning her back.
5. •
   (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.

   • I can't believe she said that...that was cold!
6. •
   Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

   • I knocked him out cold.
   • After one more beer he passed out cold.
7. •
   Completely unprepared; without introduction.

   • He was assigned cold calls for the first three months.
8. •
   Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.

   • You're cold … getting warmer … hot! You've found it!
9. •
   Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.

   • Let's look at this tomorrow with a cold head.
   • He's a nice guy, but the cold facts say we should fire him.
10. •
    Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.

    • Practice your music scales until you know them cold.
    • Try both these maneuvers until you have them cold and can do them in the dark without thinking.
11. •
    Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.

    • Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor ⁠An inner trouble I behold, ⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold, That I shall be thy mate no more, […] — 1850
12. •
    Cornered; done for.

    • With that receipt, we have them cold for fraud.
    • Criminal interrogation. Initially they will dream up explanations faster than you could ever do so, but when they become fatigued, often they will acknowledge that you have them cold.
13. •
    (slang) Cool, impressive.

    • Lowkey she so cold for that — 2023
14. •
    Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
15. •
    Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
16. •
    Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
17. •
    Without electrical power being supplied.
18. •
    (informal) Not radioactive.
19. •
    Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
20. •
    (no longer used) Not pungent or acrid.

    • cold plants — 1627
21. •
    (no longer used) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.

    • What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! — 1641
22. •
    (no longer used) Not sensitive; not acute.

    • Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose. — 1610

noun4

1. •
   A condition of low temperature.

   • Come in, out of the cold.
2. •
   A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

   • I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week
3. •
   (figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.

   • The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.
4. •
   (slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.

   • Who the fuck is this, pagin' me at 5:46 in the morning? / crack of dawn and now I'm yawnin' / wipe the cold out my eye, see who's this pagin' me and why — 1994

adverb3

1. •
   At a low temperature.

   • The steel was processed cold.
2. •
   Without preparation.

   • The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
3. •
   (informal, slang) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

   • Now Little Bo Peep cold lost her sheep / And Rip van Winkle fell the hell asleep — 1986

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of computer output to laser disc.