Chill
English
Noun
Chill (plural Chills)- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness: close the window or you'll catch a chill.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
Adjective
Chill (comparative more Chill, superlative most Chill)
- Moderately cold or chilly.
- (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also: chill out.
- (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
Verb
Chill (third-person singular simple present Chills, present participle Chilling, simple past and past participle Chilled)
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax, lay back. Also chill out.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
Adjectives for Chill
horrid; penetrating; biting; shrinking; severe; mental; violent; curious; embarrassing; noticeable; hopeless; sharp; congestive; sudden; inexplicable; slight; damp; timid; dry; icy; bone-penetrating; deathly; vault-like; bitter; uncomfortable; balmy; growing; cold; increasing; dreadful; comfortless; shaking.
Verbs for Chill
blow—; chatter with—s; experience—; expose to—; overcome by—; produce—; prolong—; quiver with—; run—; seize with—; sense—; shake with—; shiver with—; shudder with—; strike with—; survive —; treat for—; —accompanies; —affects; —creeps in; —depresses; —injures; — numbs; —penetrates.
Adverbs for Chill
bitingly; severely; violently; hopelessly; noticeably; sharply; suddenly; inexplicably; bitterly; increasingly; dreadfully; mortally; painfully.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
cool, coolish, coolness, coolth, coryza, coughing, creeps, crispness, cryogenics, cryology, cryopathy, cut, cyanosis, damp, dampen, damper, deadpan, decrease in temperature, deflect, deject, demoralize, depress, detachment, deter, determent, deterrent, diarrhea, didder, disaccordant, disaffect, disaffinity, discourage, discouragement, dishearten, disincline, disinterest, disinterested, disparage, dispassion, dispassionate, dispassionateness, dispirit, distance, distant, distract, distress, dither, dithers, divert, dizziness, dropsy, drugged, duck bumps, dull, dullness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, emotional deadness, emotionally dead, emotionless, emotionlessness, enmity, fainting, fatigue, fervorlessness, fever, fibrillation, flu, flux, formal, freeze, freeze to death, freezing, freezing point, fresh, freshen, freshness, frigid, frigidity, frost, frostbite, frosted, frostiness, frosty, frozen, gelid, gelidity, glacial, go through, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, grow cold, growth, halfheartedness, have a chill, have goose pimples, heartless, heartlessness, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, horripilate, horripilation, hostility, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, ice, ice-cool, iciness, icterus, icy, immovability, immovable, impassibility, impassive, impassiveness, impassivity, inaccessibility, inclemency, incompatibility, incompatible, incompatibleness, indifference, indifferent, indifferentism, indifferentness, indigestion, indispose, inexcitability, inexcitable, inflammation, influenza, infrigidate, inhospitable, inhospitality, inimical, inimicality, insensitive, insipidity, insomnia, insusceptible, intense cold, invigorating, itching, jaundice, keenness, kibe, la grippe, labored breathing, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch, lose heat, low blood pressure, low temperature, lukewarmness, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, neuterness, neutrality, neutralness, nip, nippiness, nippy, nonemotional, numb, numbed, numbing, objective, objectivity, obtuse, obtuseness, offishness, out of touch, pain, paralysis, passionless, passionlessness, penetrate, penetrating, perfunctoriness, perish with cold, personal conflict, pierce, poker face, polar, pruritus, put off, quake, quench, quiver, rash, raw, rawness, refresh, refrigerate, remoteness, repel, reserved, rheum, rigor, sclerosis, seizure, self-absorbed, self-absorption, severity, shake, sharp air, sharpness, shiver, shivering, shivers, shock, shudder, skin eruption, sneezing, solitary, sore, soulless, soullessness, spasm, spiritless, spiritlessness, standoffish, standoffishness, stimulating, straight face, strain, strained, tabes, tachycardia, temperate, tense, tension, tepidness, the sniffles, tremble, tumor, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unaffectionate, unamiability, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachability, uncompanionable, uncordial, uncordiality, unemotional, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unfriendliness, unfriendly, ungenial, ungeniality, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressibility, unimpressionable, unimpressionableness, uninterested, unloving, unpassionate, unpassionateness, unresponding, unresponsive, unresponsiveness, unsociability, unsociable, unsusceptibility, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, unsympatheticness, untouchability, untouchable, upset stomach, vapidity, ventilate, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, wean from, wet blanket, wintry, withdrawal, withdrawn, withdrawnness, zeallessness, abscess, absolute zero, abstracted, ache, aching, affectless, ague, air-condition, air-cool, algidity, aloof, aloofness, anemia, anesthesia, anesthetized, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, arctic, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, autism, autistic, backache, be cold, benumb, benumbed, bite, bitterness, bleakness, bleeding, blennorhea, blunt, bracing, briskness, cachexia, cachexy, catatonia, catatonic, chatter, chilblains, chilliness, chilling, chills, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold blood, cold creeps, cold heart, cold shivers, cold water, cold-blooded, coldhearted, coldheartedness, coldness, colic, constipation, convulsion,
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA: /tʃɪl/
- Rhymes: -ɪl
Translations
Noun
|
Adjective
Verb
|
|
|
Middle English
Etymology
See ch-.
Verb
Chill
- I will.
Norwegian
Etymology
From English chill
Adjective
chill
- Det er chill.
- That's cool.
Verb
chill
- Imperative of chille
