Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Cold

Nouns
  • 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.
Verbs
  • be cold etc. adj.
  • shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder, quiver
  • freeze, freeze to death, perish with cold. freeze etc. (render cold) Refrigeration
  • horripilate, make the skin crawl, give one goose flesh.
Adjectives
  • 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) Refrigeration
  • chilled to the bone, shivering etc. v.
  • aguish
  • 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.
Adverbs
  • coldly, bitterly etc. adj.