stone-cold
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈstoʊn koʊld/
- Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my stone cold British heart.
- a stone-cold killer
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Examples
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Her coffee cup is steaming, his is stone cold, perhaps suggesting he has been waiting a while for her.
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His eyes were stone-cold, but soon softened into indifference.
Fiction book (1999) -
They're stone cold.
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I poured myself a cup of stone-cold coffee and grimaced at the taste.
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After sitting outside in the winter air, the soup turned stone-cold before I could enjoy it.
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The weather was stone-cold, making it unbearable to be outside without a warm coat.
Synonyms
232
1.0
Covered with ice because of very cold weather
156
1.0
So cold that water turns to ice
91
1.0
Very cold with surfaces covered in ice
42
1.0
Very cold, like frozen water
34
4.1
Very cold, like ice or freezing air
30
3.6
Very cold with no warmth
25
1.3
Very cold, at or below freezing
18
2.2
Being relaxed and calm or made cold
6
7.0
Very cold or scary
1
9.9
Very cold in a way that feels unpleasant
1
9.9
People say this to mean very cold in a joking, exaggerated way
1
4.7
Very low in temperature and clearly unfriendly
1
7.2
Very cold in a way that makes being outside difficult
1
9.1
Feeling quite cold, often said about the weather
Antonyms
How Cold
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stone-cold comes from the image of a stone that has no warmth and the word cold, so it means completely cold, 'having lost all warmth'.