[syn: chilly, parky]
3. lacking warmth of feeling;
- Example: "a chilly greeting"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Chilly \Chill"y\, a.
Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause
shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of
cold, or a shivering.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
chilly
adj 1: not characterized by emotion; "a female form in marble--a
chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract
virtues"-C.W.Cunningham
2: appreciably or disagreeably cold [syn: chilly, parky]
3: lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting"
n 1: very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
[syn: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly, chile]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "chilly":
Olympian, above all that, affectless, aguey, aguish, algid, aloof,
anesthetized, arctic, autistic, backward, bashful, blank,
blue with cold, blunt, bracing, catatonic, chattering, chill,
chilled, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted,
constrained, cool, coolish, crisp, detached, disaccordant,
discreet, dispassionate, distant, dithery, drugged, dull,
emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless,
forbidding, freezing, fresh, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen,
frozen to death, gelid, glacial, guarded, half-frozen, heartless,
hostile, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal,
inaccessible, incompatible, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical,
insusceptible, introverted, invigorating, modest, nippy,
nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless,
remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent,
retiring, seclusive, self-absorbed, shaky, shivering, shivery,
shrinking, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish,
stimulating, strained, subdued, suppressed, temperate, tense,
unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable,
uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional,
unenthusiastic, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial,
unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving,
unpassionate, unreceptive, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable,
unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, with chattering teeth,
withdrawn