chill

1. noun

1)

a chill in the air

Syn:

coldness, chilliness, coolness, iciness, rawness, bitterness, nip

Ant:

warmth

2)

he had a chill

Syn:

a cold, (the) sniffles, (the) shivers, (the) flu/influenza, a fever; archaic (the) grippe

3)

the chill in their relations

Syn:

unfriendliness, lack of warmth, lack of understanding, chilliness, coldness, coolness

Ant:

friendliness

2. verb

1)

the dessert is best chilled

Syn:

make cold, make colder, cool (down/off); refrigerate, ice

Ant:

warm

2)

his quiet tone chilled Ruth

Syn:

scare, frighten, petrify, terrify, alarm; make someone's blood run cold, chill to the bone, make someone's flesh crawl; informal scare the pants off; archaic affright

Ant:

comfort, reassure

3. adjective

a chill wind

- chill out

Syn:

cold, chilly, cool, fresh; wintry, frosty, icy, ice-cold, icy-cold, glacial, polar, arctic, raw, bitter, bitterly cold, biting, freezing, frigid, gelid, hypothermic; informal nippy