Sekirov Dictionary

stone cold

adjective 6
adverb 1
forms 4

adjective6

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Very cold (literally); lacking any semblance of warmth.
- I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later.
•
Completely cold.
- By the time I returned to my desk, my tea was stone-cold.
Lacking emotion or compassion.
•
Without emotion.
- He was a stone-cold killer: he didn't flinch as he took the shot.
•
Certain; definite; obvious.
- "A hike on Thursday looks a stone cold certainty," Howard Archer, chief UK economist at Global Insight, said. — 2006
•
Absolute; incomparable.
- With an ace-high flush on an unpaired board, he had the stone-cold nuts.

adverb1

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Certainly; definitely; obviously.
- It is stone cold guaranteed that that guy will get his clock cleaned if he shows up here today.

forms

more stone cold · more stone-cold · most stone cold · most stone-cold

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