Roget's Thesaurus

#383. 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) 385; 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) 385; chilled to the bone, shivering etc. v.; aguish, transi de froid [Fr.]; 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.; pierre fendre [Fr.];