A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs):
— Will they never find a cure for the common cold?.

synoniem: common cold.

Nederlands: kou, neusverkoudheid, rinitis, verkoudheid
Pools: przeziębienie, przechłodzenie, zaziębienie

The absence of heat:
— The coldness made our breath visible.
— Come in out of the cold.
— Cold is a vasoconstrictor.

synoniemen: coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature.

Roget 383: cold, coldness etc. adj.; frigidity, inclemency, fresco.    winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla; wind-chill factor.    [forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U.S.], lolly [U.S.]; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev_ee, serac^†; pruina^†.    [cold substances] freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium.    [Sensation of cold] chilliness etc. adj.; chill; shivering etc. v.; goose skin, horripilation^†; rigor; chattering of teeth; numbness, frostbite.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: kou, koude, ondertemperatuur
Pools: zimno

The sensation produced by low temperatures:
— He shivered from the cold.
— The cold helped clear his head.

synoniem: coldness.

Nederlands: koud, koude, kou

Having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration.

Roget 429: uncolored etc. (color) etc. 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic^†; etiolate, etiolated; hueless^†, pale, pallid; palefaced^†, tallow-faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored etc. v.. light-colored, fair, blond; white etc. 430.    pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 438: blue, azure, cerulean; sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed; cerulescent^†; powder blue, bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold.   

Roget 889: inimical, unfriendly, hostile; at enmity, at variance, at daggers drawn, at open war with; up in arms against; in bad odor with.    on bad terms, not on speaking terms; cool; cold, cold hearted; estranged, alienated, disaffected, irreconcilable.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: zimny

Extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion.

Pools: zimny

Having lost freshness through passage of time.

color Giving no sensation of warmth.

Pools: chłodny, zimny

Marked by errorless familiarity.

Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new.

synoniemen: dusty, moth-eaten, stale.

So intense as to be almost uncontrollable.

Sexually unresponsive:
— Was cold to his advances.

synoniem: frigid.

Roget 383: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid^†; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous^†, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved etc. (made cold) 385; chilled to the bone, shivering etc. v.; aguish, transi de froid [Fr.]; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.    cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard.    icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose^†, wintry, brumal^†, hibernal^†, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal^†; hyperborean, hyperboreal^†; icebound; frozen out.    unwarmed^†, unthawed^†; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal^†, isocheimenal^†, isocheimic^†.    frozen, numb, frost-bitten.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 575: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.    careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent) 460; slipshod, slipslop^†; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling etc. (diffuse) 573.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 866: indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber; unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante^†, easygoing, devil-may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous^†, unsolicitous^†, unattracted.    [indifferent toward people] aloof, unapproachable, remote; uncaring.    unattractive, unalluring, undesired, undesirable, uncared for, unwished^†, unvalued, all one to.    insipid etc. 391; vain.    ... meer laten zien

Without compunction or human feeling:
— In cold blood.
— Cold-blooded killing.

synoniemen: cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate.

Roget 907: malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign; ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived; evil-minded, evil-disposed; black-browed^†.    malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful; mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent; unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling.    harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious^†; invidious; uncandid; churlish etc. (discourteous) 895; surly, sullen etc. 901.1. cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted; hard of heart, unnatural; ruthless etc. (unmerciful) 914.1; relentless etc. (revengeful) 919.    cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine^†, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty etc. (murderous) 361; atrocious; bloodyminded^†.    fiendish, fiendlike^†; demoniacal; diabolic, diabolical; devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic; Tartaran.    ... meer laten zien

Feeling or showing no enthusiasm.

Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication.

Of a seeker; far from the object sought.

Lacking the warmth of life.