ice-cold
/ˈaɪskəʊld/
ice-cold adjective: very cold.
Adjective
ice-cold (comparative more ice-cold, superlative most ice-cold)
- Very cold.
- Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold
- I'm going to put my coat back on — I'm ice-cold again!
- Synonyms:
- cold as ice, icy, freezing cold, freezing, frigid, frosty, stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse, algid, Arctic
- Antonyms:
- boiling hot, steaming hot, piping hot, baking hot, smoking hot, hot, calid, choleric, heated
- Of a person, look, or behavior: without emotion; distant; (sometimes) silently disapproving.
- I don't know why she gave me an ice-cold look — I had thought that the topic of conversation was totally innocuous.
- Synonyms:
- cold as ice, icy, frigid, stone cold, frosty
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, cold: as cold as ice or nearly so (close to a freezing point).
- Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold
- ice-cold beer here
- Synonyms:
- cold as ice, icy, freezing cold, freezing, frigid, frosty, stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse, algid, Arctic
- Antonyms:
- boiling hot, steaming hot, piping hot, baking hot, smoking hot, hot, calid, choleric, heated
Noun
ice-cold (plural ice-colds)
- A cold serving of beer.
- […] to sink a few ice colds […]
- Synonyms:
- cold one, frosty one
ice-cold meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
ice-cold in Tamil
- பனிக்குளிர்ச்சி
ice-cold in Malayalam
- icy, freezing, glacial
- ഐസുപേലെ തണുത്ത, മഞ്ഞുപോലെ തണുത്ത, ഹിമവത്ത്, ഹിമംപോലെയുള്ള, ഹിമ, ഹിമ്യ
Examples of ice-cold in a sentence
- It's best to serve this dessert while it's still ice-cold.
- When Tripp holds his red soda like it’s an ice-cold beer, it probably isn’t actually Mountain Dew Code Red, but it might as well be.2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club:
Synonyms of ice-cold
- cold as ice
- icy
- freezing cold
- freezing
- frigid
- frosty
- stone cold
- cold as a well-digger's arse
- algid
- Arctic
27 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Antonyms
Forms of ice-cold
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more ice-cold |
| superlative | most ice-cold |
| alternative form | icecold |
| alternative form | ice cold |
| Noun | |
| plural | ice-colds |
Origin of ice-cold
From Middle English *is-cold, from Old English īsċeald; equivalent to ice + cold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ieskoold (“ice-cold”), West Frisian iiskâld (“ice-cold”), Dutch ijskoud (“ice-cold”), Afrikaans yskoud (“ice-cold”), German Low German ieskold (“ice-cold”), German eiskalt (“ice-cold”), Yiddish אײַזקאַלט (ayzkalt, “ice-cold”), Danish iskold (“ice-cold”), Swedish iskall (“ice-cold”), Norwegian iskald (“ice-cold”), Faroese ísakaldur (“ice-cold”), Icelandic ískaldur (“ice-cold”).
Questions about ice-cold
- What does ice-cold mean?
- Ice-cold means very cold.
- What is ice-cold in Tamil?
- Ice-cold in Tamil is பனிக்குளிர்ச்சி. See Ice-cold meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use ice-cold in a sentence?
- It's best to serve this dessert while it's still ice-cold.
- What part of speech is ice-cold?
- Ice-cold can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce ice-cold?
- Ice-cold is pronounced /ˈaɪskəʊld/ (UK).
Words near ice-cold in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ice-cold (page history and authors); ice-cold (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ice-cold (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ice-cold.wav.
Cite this entry: “ice-cold.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ice-cold. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.