chilly

Speech parts

1. chilly - Noun

2. chilly - Adjective

3. chilly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

chili chili pepper parky baltic siberian arctic curt nordic lapin september antarctic stony nipper capsicum stone-cold
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Antonyms

tropic strong summer red pyre blazing
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Hypernyms

hot pepper

Hyponyms

cayenne jalapeno cayenne pepper jalapeno pepper

Phrases with the word

very chilly chilly wind chilly medium chilly noodles chilly air chilly-water seabird

Derivatives

chillier chilliest

Examples

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. Amy Tan

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. George F. Kennan

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. Ambrose Bierce

Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well. Bertolt Brecht

The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows. Libba Bray

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. John Keats

Close letter words and terms

Chillumbrum chillumchee chillwave chilly air chilly apartment chilly bin