stone-cold
- adjective
- /ˈstoʊn koʊld/
- Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my stone cold British heart.
- a stone-cold killer
Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my stone cold British heart.
- Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my stone cold British heart.
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
Very cold with surfaces covered in ice
Very cold, like frozen water
Very cold, like ice or freezing air
Very cold, at or below freezing
Very cold or scary
Being relaxed and calm or made cold
Covered with ice because of very cold weather
Very cold with no warmth
People say this to mean very cold in a joking, exaggerated way
Very cold in a way that feels unpleasant
So cold that water turns to ice
Very cold in a way that makes being outside difficult
Very low in temperature and clearly unfriendly
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'.