chilly

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: chil=ly

CIDE DICTIONARY

chilly, 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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chilly, adj. (chillier, chilliest)
1 (of the weather or an object) somewhat cold.
2 (of a person or animal) feeling somewhat cold; sensitive to the cold.
3 unfriendly; unemotional.

Derivative

chilliness n.

THESAURUS

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unreceptive, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, with chattering teeth, withdrawn

ROGET THESAURUS

chilly

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.