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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun chilly has 1 sense
- chilly(n = noun.food) chile, chili, chili pepper, chilli - very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency; Array is a kind of hot pepper
has particulars: jalapeno, jalapeno pepper, cayenne, cayenne pepper
is a part of capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper
Adjective chilly has 3 senses
- chilly(s = adj.all) Array - not characterized by emotion; "a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues"
- chilly(s = adj.all) parky - appreciably or disagreeably cold; Array Derived forms noun chill1, noun chilliness1
- chilly(s = adj.all) Array - lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting"
CIDE DICTIONARY
chilly, a.
Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chilly, adj. (chillier, chilliest)
1 (of the weather or an object) somewhat cold.
2 (of a person or animal) feeling somewhat cold; sensitive to the cold.
3 unfriendly; unemotional.
1 (of the weather or an object) somewhat cold.
2 (of a person or animal) feeling somewhat cold; sensitive to the cold.
3 unfriendly; unemotional.
Derivative
chilliness n.
THESAURUS
chilly
Olympian, above all that, affectless, aguey, aguish, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blue with cold, blunt, bracing, catatonic, chattering, chill, chilled, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, coolish, crisp, detached, disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, dithery, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, freezing, fresh, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, frozen to death, gelid, glacial, guarded, half-frozen, heartless, hostile, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incompatible, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical, insusceptible, introverted, invigorating, modest, nippy, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, self-absorbed, shaky, shivering, shivery, shrinking, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, stimulating, strained, subdued, suppressed, temperate, tense, unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable, uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unreceptive, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, with chattering teeth, withdrawnROGET THESAURUS
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Cold
N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, 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, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.
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