Antonyms for coldest

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kohld

Phonetic Transcription : koʊld

Definition of coldest

Origin : Old English cald (Anglian), ceald (West Saxon) "cold, cool" (adj.), "coldness," from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz (cf. Old Frisian and Old Saxon kald, Old High German and German kalt, Old Norse kaldr, Gothic kalds "cold"), possibly a past participle adjective of *kal-/*kol-, from PIE root *gel-/*gol- "cold" (cf. Latin gelare "to freeze," gelu "frost," glacies "ice").
Meaning "not strong" (in reference to scent) is 1590s, from hunting. Cold front in weather is from 1921. Cold-call in the sales pitch sense first recorded 1972. Japanese has two words for "cold:" samui for coldness in the atmosphere or environment; tsumetai for things which are cold to touch, and also in the figurative sense, with reference to personalities, behaviors, etc.

adj chilly, freezing
adj aloof, unresponsive

Example sentences :

Because generally there is a periodical frost in the month of May, and it is coldest from the 11th to the 13th.
Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne

That night, it appears, was one of the coldest that had been experienced for many years past.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

It was, I think, one of the coldest and most miserable mornings I ever experienced.
Extract from : « Adventures and Recollections » by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

And this, chanted again and again, would have made the coldest care.
Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael

“If you wish,” replied Leopold at his haughtiest and coldest.
Extract from : « The Princess Virginia » by C. N. Williamson

It was from the head of the Cabinet, and in the coldest tone imaginable.
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

This is one of the coldest days of this most damnable and interminable winter.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

The winter of 1942-43 was one of the coldest ever known here.
Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 » by Various

A gray dawn was breaking, and this is the coldest and bleakest hour of the day.
Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace

This has been the coldest day of the season in this latitude.
Extract from : « The Citizen-Soldier » by John Beatty

Synonyms for coldest

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