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acold

acold

9.9
To feel chilly and shiver after being outside without warm clothes
  • adjective
  • Archaic
: frío
  • He was acold during the winter night.

Examples

  • Shivering and acold, he wrapped his arms tightly around himself.

  • She felt acold after stepping outside.

  • She felt utterly acold after hours in the open field.

  • The children stood acold in the early morning frost.

  • Shivering and acold, he wrapped his arms tightly around himself.

  • She felt utterly acold after hours in the open field.

  • The children stood acold in the early morning frost.

Synonyms

cold
vsacold
∞ 1.0

Having a low temperature that feels chilly

is about a person feeling low body warmth rather than general temperature
chilly
vsacold
112 1.0

A bit cold in a way that feels uncomfortable

is general low body warmth rather than mild uncomfortable coolness
icy
vsacold
91 1.0

Very cold with surfaces covered in ice

is about a person's sensation rather than being physically frozen over
freezing cold
vsacold
25 1.3

Very cold, at or below freezing

is less extreme, a person feeling low warmth but not near freezing
stone-cold
vsacold
22 4.1

Very cold with no warmth left

is a milder sense of low warmth rather than absolute loss
shivery
vsacold
1 4.2

Feeling very cold and trembling slightly

is about feeling low warmth without necessarily shivering
cold as a witch's tit
vsacold
  • Offensive
1 9.9

Very cold in a way that feels unpleasant

is the simple sensation of low warmth without strong informality
algid
vsacold
  • Specialized
1 9.9

Skin feels cold because of illness, shock, or collapse

is a general feeling of low warmth without suggesting illness

Antonyms

hot
∞ 1.0

Having a high temperature and able to burn your skin

∞ 1.0

Having a comfortable level of heat, often after recent use

How Cold

freezing
156 1.0
cold
∞ 1.0
acold
  • Archaic
9.9
chilly
112 1.0
cool
7 1.0

Surface Forms

acold positive

Morphology

acold = cold (semi-transparent) = a + cold

The meaning is directly built from 'cold' with the archaic/state prefix 'a-' that may be unfamiliar to learners, so derivation is partly obvious but not fully productive.

Etymology

Acold comes from the old prefix a- meaning 'in' or 'on' plus cold, so it originally meant 'in cold'. Think of words like awake or afraid, where a- puts you into a state; that's why acold means feeling cold.