coldly
30
4.0
- adverb
- /ˈkoʊldli/
:
con frialdad
- Paul came to the door and stared at me coldly, not inviting me in.
- looked at me coldly
- coldly intellectual
- coldly scientific
Eunice takes us into a room and very coldly looks at us and goes.
- Eunice takes us into a room and very coldly looks at us and goes.
- Sort of like coldly mathematical look.
- You know, I've I've mistaken twins for their sibling and said hello and wondered why they greeted me so coldly.
- You learned really quickly to not demand anything, to not need anything, ask anything, or do any of the things that would lead the parent to coldly withdraw.
- You've got to be able to stand outside your client and look at them coldly.
- Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funeral meats did coldly furnish forth the wedding table.
Examples
-
I don't understand how you can sit there and speak so coldly about this.
-
I want to document coldly, rationally, what is being done here.
-
You treat me coldly each day in the year
-
His mother looks at me coldly, like I was to blame.
-
My people received me coldly and with suspicion.
Academic text (2002) -
"Yes," the guest retorted coldly and with a touch of arrogance.
Fiction book (1991) -
The aggressor's warplanes are depicted as impersonal, coldly mechanical, and clinical.
Academic text (2016) -
The lady's nearly celestial beauty is indeed viewed objectively, impersonally, and perhaps coldly.
Academic text (2003) -
With a turn-about worthy of Jekyll and Hyde Jill, quite transformed, took poor Rupert aside to inform him, quite coldly, that they would now part.
-
When she spoke coldly, it was clear she felt hurt by what he had said.
Synonyms
1
5.7
In a cold, unfriendly way that shows no feeling
1
9.9
In a cold way that shows no care for other people's feelings
1
8.0
In a cold, unfriendly way that shows no feeling
1
8.4
Without showing much feeling or reaction
1
6.8
In a cold, unfriendly way that shows no feeling
1
6.5
To behave in a cold, unfriendly way
1
6.6
Without showing care for someone's feelings
In a way that shows little warmth or care
In a very unfriendly way that shows no warmth
In a cold, clinical way that shows no feeling
Antonyms
How Warm
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word coldly is made from cold (meaning 'low in temperature' or 'without warmth') plus the ending -ly that shows 'how' something is done. That's why to act coldly means to behave as if you are 'emotionally cold', or distant and not friendly.