chilling
/ˈt͡ʃɪlɪŋ/
chilling adjective: becoming cold. Also the present participle and gerund of chill.
Adjective
chilling (comparative more chilling, superlative most chilling)
- Becoming cold.
- As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 22
- Causing cold.
- Causing mild fear.
- It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes...
Noun
chilling (plural chillings)
- The act by which something is chilled.
- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73
Also used as
chilling is also the present participle and gerund of chill.
chilling meaning in Kannada and Arabic
chilling in Kannada
- ತಣ್ಣಗಾಗುವುದು
chilling in Arabic
- causing mild fear
- مرعبه, مخيف, زاحف
Examples of chilling in a sentence
- He was chilling out with his girlfriend in the swimming pool.
- I finished all my work early today and now we're bing chilling.
- But the mere fact that we even have to ask this question is chilling.
Forms of chilling
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more chilling |
| superlative | most chilling |
| Noun | |
| plural | chillings |
Origin of chilling
From Middle English chilling, chelling, chyllinge, chillynge, chillande, equivalent to chill + -ing.
From Middle English chilling, chillyng, chyllynge, equivalent to chill + -ing.
Words formed from chilling
Phrases with chilling
Words that rhyme with chilling
- filling
- milling
- shilling
- billing
- quilling
- killing
- take the shilling
- drilling
- fulfilling
- grilling
- spilling
- trilling
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Questions about chilling
- What does chilling mean?
- Chilling means becoming cold.
- What is chilling in Kannada?
- Chilling in Kannada is ತಣ್ಣಗಾಗುವುದು. See Chilling meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is chilling?
- Chilling can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce chilling?
- Chilling is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɪlɪŋ/.
Words near chilling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chilling (page history and authors); chilling (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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