coldest
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
2.Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold. [1913 Webster]
3.Not pungent or acrid. "Cold plants." --Bacon [1913 Webster]
4.Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. [1913 Webster]
A cold and unconcerned spectator.— T. Burnet.[1913 Webster]
No cold relation is a zealous citizen.— Burke.[1913 Webster]
5.Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
6.Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. [1913 Webster]
What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!— B. Jonson.[1913 Webster]
The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene.— Addison.[1913 Webster]
7.Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent. [1913 Webster]
8.Not sensitive; not acute. [1913 Webster]
Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
9.Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. [1913 Webster]
10.(Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8. [1913 Webster]
Cold abscess. See under Abscess.
Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2.
Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8.
Cold chill, an ague fit. --Wright.
Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. --Weale.
Cold cream. See under Cream.
In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately. [1913 Webster]
He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.— Sir W. Scott.
To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.
Syn: Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical. [1913 Webster]