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(adj) cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
without compunction or human feeling
in cold blood; cold-blooded killing; insensate destruction
(adj) frigid
sexually unresponsive
was cold to his advances; a frigid woman
(adj) dusty, moth-eaten, stale
lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
moth-eaten theories about race; stale news
(noun) coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature
the absence of heat
the coldness made our breath visible; come in out of the cold; cold is a vasoconstrictor
(noun) coldness
the sensation produced by low temperatures
he shivered from the cold; the cold helped clear his head
(noun) common cold
a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
will they never find a cure for the common cold?