ice-cold en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈaɪskəʊld/ (UK)
Etymology
From Middle English *is-cold, from Old English īsċeald; equivalent to ice + cold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ieskoold (“ice-cold”), West Frisian iiskâld (“ice-cold”), Dutch ijskoud (“ice-cold”), Afrikaans yskoud (“ice-cold”), German Low German ieskold (“ice-cold”), German eiskalt (“ice-cold”), Yiddish אײַזקאַלט (ayzkalt, “ice-cold”), Danish iskold (“ice-cold”), Swedish iskall (“ice-cold”), Norwegian iskald (“ice-cold”), Faroese ísakaldur (“ice-cold”), Icelandic ískaldur (“ice-cold”).
Meanings
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(broadly, idiomatic) Very cold.
I'm going to put my coat back on — I'm ice-cold again!
Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold
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(figuratively) Of a person, look, or behavior: without emotion; distant; (sometimes) silently disapproving.
I don't know why she gave me an ice-cold look — I had thought that the topic of conversation was totally innocuous.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, cold: as cold as ice or nearly so (close to a freezing point).
ice-cold beer here
Now I'm sitting here Sipping on my ice-cold beer Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
1966, The Kinks, Sunny Afternoon:When Tripp holds his red soda like it’s an ice-cold beer, it probably isn’t actually Mountain Dew Code Red, but it might as well be.
2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club:Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold
It's best to serve this dessert while it's still ice-cold.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most ice-cold | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| ice cold | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more ice-cold | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| icecold | alternative | lexicographic |
Antonyms
choleric · calid · piping hot · smoking hot · choleric · baking hot · steaming hot · boiling hot · steaming hot · heated · boiling hot · hot · smoking hot · hot · heated · baking hot · calid · piping hot
Coordinates
tepid · lukewarm · tepid · lukewarm · chilly · cool · lukewarm · cool · tepid · chilly · cool · chilled · chilly · chilled
Hypernyms
Synonyms
frosty · frosty · frigid · freezing · brumal · glacial · inclement · polar · cold as charity · cold · icy · freezing · sleety · nesh · brass monkeys · icy · Arctic · cold as a mackerel · snowy · chilled · algid · boreal · taters · chilly · Arctic · clay-cold · freezing cold · chilly · icy · cold as charity · algid · parky · stone cold · frigid · gelid · snowy · polar · wintry · hiemal · sleety · hiemal · gelid · nippy · cold as ice · clay-cold · Baltic · nesh · glacial · brass monkeys · boreal · taters · cold · parky · cold as ice · freezing cold · chilled · icy · inclement · frosty · nippy · frigid · frozen · chill · chill · cold as a well-digger's arse · frosty · stone cold · freezing · brumal · frozen · frore · icy · stone cold · frore · freezing · wintry · cold as a mackerel · Baltic · frosty · cold as a well-digger's arse · cold as ice
Translations (34)
pt gélido (distant) · pdt iesskolt (as cold as ice) · fi jääkylmä (as cold as ice) · yi אײַזקאַלט (as cold as ice) · cmn 冰冷 (as cold as ice) · pt gelado (as cold as ice) · bg ле́деностуден (as cold as ice) · tr buz gibi (as cold as ice) · ru ледяно́й (as cold as ice) · cs ledový (as cold as ice) · es gélido (as cold as ice) · ru холо́дный как лёд (as cold as ice) · la gelidus (as cold as ice) · fi jääkylmä (distant) · sv iskall (distant) · sv iskall (as cold as ice) · no iskald (distant) · yue 凍冰冰 /冻冰冰 (as cold as ice) · cs chladný jako led (as cold as ice) · pt frio (distant) · de eiskalt (as cold as ice) · no iskald (as cold as ice) · fr glacé (as cold as ice) · fr glacial (as cold as ice) · hu jéghideg (as cold as ice) · cs chladný jako led (distant) · es helado (as cold as ice) · fr glacial (distant) · pl lodowata (as cold as ice) · ang isceald (as cold as ice) · nl ijskoud (as cold as ice) · pl lodowaty (as cold as ice) · pt gélido (as cold as ice) · is ískaldur (as cold as ice)