Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: coldness
IPA transcription: [k'oʊldnəs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: cold, coldness
    Meaning: the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"
  • Synonyms: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness
    Meaning: a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner"
Usage examples
  • Would she not make up to him for all her coldness!
  • In spite of my coldness, Louis grew bolder, and his nature expanded.
  • As I moved, an icy coldness seemed to enfold me, so that I shivered.
  • "I'm downstairs, Susan." The boy's voice challenged hers for coldness now.
  • As he sat down and reached for them he was conscious of an arctic coldness in the air, a frigid blast.
  • Vancouver on his part could form no conception of the cause of the coldness the two ladies had shown him.
  • And though she felt sure that a coldness was beginning, there was nothing she could do, she could not in any way alter her relations to him.
  • Towards the end of her life, long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she had been imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism which often deprived her of the use of her limbs.
  • Taking advantage of the coldness which had for some time existed between the Taiko and Rikiu, the enemies of the latter accused him of being implicated in a conspiracy to poison the despot.
  • I accept, O my God!--be it a well merited punishment or a salutary trial,--this privation of light and sensible devotion, this coldness and distraction, which accompany me even into Thy presence when all the faculties of my soul should be absorbed and confounded in sentiments of adoration and of love.