I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: (Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë)
Je n'ai jamais aimé les longues promenades, surtout par les après-midi frais:
It was a chilly November afternoon. (The Angel of the Odd - Edgar Allan Poe)
C'était un froid après-midi de novembre.
2. adj. (Figuré) Glacé, froid
a chilly smile = un sourire glacé
chilly
1. adj. Cold enough to cause discomfort.
2. adj. Feeling uncomfortably cold.
I’m getting rather chilly over here – could you shut the window please?
3. adj. (figuratively) Distant and cool; unfriendly.
She gave me a chilly look when I made the suggestion.
4. n. alternative spelling of chili.
cold
1. adj. Froid.
Ice is very cold.
La glace est très froide.
2. adj. Faisant froid.
It is cold today.
Il fait froid aujourd'hui.
3. n. Froid ; froideur.
Get out of the cold.
Sors du froid.
4. n. Rhume.
I caught a cold from playing in the snow.
J'ai attrapé un rhume en jouant dans la neige.
cold
1. adj. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
A cold wind whistled through the trees.
2. adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
The forecast is that it will be very cold today.
3. adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
She was so cold she was shivering.
4. adj. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
She shot me a cold glance before turning her back.
5. adj. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
Let's look at this tomorrow with a cold head.
He's a nice guy, but the cold facts say we should fire him.
The cold truth is that states rarely undertake military action unless their national interests are at stake.
6. adj. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
He was assigned cold calls for the first three months.
7. adj. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
I knocked him out cold.
After one more beer he passed out cold.
8. adj. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
Practice your music scales until you know them cold.
Try both these maneuvers until you have them cold and can do them in the dark without thinking.
Rehearse your lines until you have them down cold.
Keep that list in front of you, or memorize it cold.
9. adj. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
With that receipt, we have them cold for fraud.
Criminal interrogation. Initially they will dream up explanations faster than you could ever do so, but when they become fatigued, often they will acknowledge that you have them cold.
12. adj. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
a cold scent
13. adj. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
14. adj. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
You're cold … getting warmer … hot! You've found it!
15. adj. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
16. adj. (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
17. adj. (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless
I can't believe she said that...that was cold!
18. n. A condition of low temperature.
Come in, out of the cold.
19. n. (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.
20. adv. While at low temperature.
The steel was processed cold.
21. adv. Without preparation.
The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
22. adv. With finality.
I knocked him out cold.
23. adv. (slang) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
frosty
1. adj. Glacé.
frosty
1. adj. Cold, chilly.
The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.
I'd like a frosty milkshake.
2. adj. Having frost on it.
The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.
3. adj. (figuratively) Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.
After the divorce, she was civil but frosty to her ex.
4. adj. (slang) Alert.
Stay frosty.
chill
1. n. Froid modéré, fraîcheur.
« J'ai inventé le froid. »
2. n. Coup de froid, frisson, grelotement.
3. adj. Frais.
4. v. Rafraîchir.
5. v. Redouter.
chill
1. n. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
There was a chill in the air.
2. n. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or su
Close the window or you'll catch a chill. I felt a chill when the wind picked up.
3. n. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene. The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience. His menacing presence cast a chill over ev
4. n. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
5. n. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
6. n. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
7. n. Calmness; equanimity.
8. n. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
9. adj. Moderately cold or chilly.
A chill wind was blowing down the street.
10. adj. Unwelcoming; not cordial.
Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception.
11. adj. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
The teacher is really chill and doesn't care if you use your phone during class.
Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
12. adj. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
That new movie was chill, man.
13. adj. (slang) Okay, not a problem.
"Sorry about that." "It's chill.".
14. v. To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
Chill before serving.
15. v. (intransitive) To become cold.
In the wind he chilled quickly.
16. v. (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
17. v. (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
18. v. (intransitive, slang) To relax, lie back.
Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
19. v. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
Hey, we should chill this weekend.
20. v. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
On Friday night do you wanna chill?
21. v. To discourage or depress.
Censorship chills public discourse.
stony
1. adj. Dur comme de la pierre.
2. adj. Fait de pierre.
3. adj. (Figuré) Qui a un cœur de pierre.
stony
1. adj. As hard as stone.
2. adj. Containing or made up of stones.
a stony path
3. adj. (figuratively) Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
4. adj. (figuratively) Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
She gave him a stony reception.
5. adj. (UK & Australian, slang) (short for, stony broke): without any money.
algid
algid
1. adj. (medicine) Cold, chilly; used of low body temperature especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.
