adjective

of or at a low or relatively low temperature, especially when compared with the human body.

a freezing cold day

chilly,cool,freezing,icy,snowy,icy-cold,glacial,wintry,crisp,frosty,frigid,bitter,bitterly cold,biting,piercing,numbing,sharp,raw,polar,arctic,Siberian,nippy,brass monkeys,parky,Baltic,chill,hyperborean,boreal,hibernal,hiemal,gelid,brumal

noun

a low temperature; cold weather; a cold environment.

my teeth chattered with the cold

adverb

completely; entirely.

we stopped cold behind a turn in the staircase