Crossword clues for coldest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cold \Cold\ (k[=o]ld), a. [Compar. Colder (-[~e]r); superl. Coldest.] [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS. kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall, Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala to freeze. Cf. Cool, a., Chill, n.]
Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. ``The snowy top of cold Olympis.''
--Milton.Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
Not pungent or acrid. ``Cold plants.''
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Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
A cold and unconcerned spectator.
--T. Burnet.No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
--Burke. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. ``Cold news for me.'' ``Cold comfort.''
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Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
--B. Jonson.The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene.
--Addison. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
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Not sensitive; not acute.
Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose.
--Shak. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
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(Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
Cold abscess. See under Abscess.
Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2.
Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8.
Cold chill, an ague fit.
--Wright.Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal.
--Weale.Cold cream. See under Cream.
Cold slaw. See Cole slaw.
In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately.
He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.
--Sir W. Scott.To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.
Syn: Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: cold)
Usage examples of "coldest".
The coldest eyes that I had ever seen, even in nightmares, glittered between puffy rolls of sagging gray flesh, and a massive swollen hand shot out and grabbed my chin.
It was the coldest, grayest, most unappetizing body of water that I had ever seen, and I knew in my bones that it was evil.
Oliver, who has let his hair grow to his shoulders, I suppose to show what he thinks of Kansas, gives my father his coldest, coldest smile.
He worshiped with the priests in the Bone Temple and never wore any fabric heavier than linen, even on the coldest day.
And if, as you say, the Cold Turn made the Threads break into dust, perhaps ice from the coldest northlands might freeze and break grounded Threads.
At the darkest, coldest time of an earlier epoch, Embruddock was overrun by the accursed phagors.
July is the warmest, and January the coldest month, but the mean temperature of Helsingfors in mid-winter has never fallen below that of Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea.
Great Year: six local centuries after the coldest time of that year, when planetary conditions were improving, and in the late autumn, after the long period of heat into which Helliconia had now entered.
Rallee is in a foul temper due to being out on patrol on one of the coldest nights of the year.
This was the coldest day we have yet experienced: the heavens were overcast with clouds.
This remark is very applicable to the northern coast, where hundreds of the poor are seen shivering, with only a thin blanket thrown around them in the coldest day of winter.
The odd leaf that still hung on them flashed silver or gold like some strange jewel that only grew on trees, and only in the coldest night.
Beneath us all was darkness and only Eric, hooked into the radar, could see the ice dome contracting until all of it was visible: the vast layered ice cap that covers the coldest spot in the solar system, where midnight crosses the equator on the black back of Mercury.
That was slippery ice, although it was most slippery not on the coldest days but on the warmest.
In the coldest tone of voice I could dredge up, I complimented his performance and said I was done with him now.