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cold

adjective
  1. lacking the warmth of life
    “They were cold in their grave.”
  2. of a seeker
    warm
  3. unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
    “the boxer was out cold”
  4. feeling or showing no enthusiasm
    “a cold audience”
  5. having lost freshness through passage of time
    “a cold trail”
  6. having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
    “a cold climate”
  7. extended meanings
    “especially of psychological coldness”
    hot
  8. without compunction or human feeling
    “in cold blood”
    insensateinhumancold-blooded
  9. sexually unresponsive
    “We were cold to the couple's advances.”
    frigid
  10. so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
    “cold fury gripped him”
  11. lacking originality or spontaneity
    staledustymoth-eaten
  12. marked by errorless familiarity
    “The understudy had their lines cold before rehearsals started.”
  13. (color) giving no sensation of warmth
    “a cold bluish grey”
noun
  1. the absence of heat
    “the coldness made our breath visible”
    coldnessfrigidityfrigidnesslow temperature
  2. the sensation produced by low temperatures
    “I shivered from the cold.”
    coldness
  3. a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
    “will they never find a cure for the common cold?”
    common cold