Chilly

Definition: Chilly

Chilly

Adjective

1. Uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather".

2. Not characterized by emotion; "a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues"-C.W.Cunningham.

3. Lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting"; "an unfriendly manner".

Noun

1. Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "chilly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Synonyms: Chilly

Cold

Adjective: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved. (made cold); chilled to the bone, shivering. Verb: aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.

Crosswords: Chilly

Gonna get mighty chilly when the sun goes down (The Last of the Fast Guns; writing credit: David P. Harmon)

A sweater is usually put on a child when the parent feels chilly. (references; author: unknown)

Chilly chipper children cheerfully chant. (references; author: unknown)

Chilly and Looney Gooney (1969)

A Chilly Reception (1958)

Chilly Willy (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chilly Billy (reference)

• Chilly Charlie (Rookie Readers. Level A) (reference)

• Chilly Scenes of Winter (Vintage Contemporaries) (reference)

• Chilly Stomach (reference)

• Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Chilly Dogs (reference)

• Head Over Heels (aka Chilly Scenes of Winter) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Chilly Morning Mama [LIVE] (reference)

• Chilly Winds (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Lieutenant Commander Harley Nygren turning angles on the Alaska Peninsula It looks like a chilly September day. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Wetlands, Chilly SloughGrassesOverview of south unitChallis Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Karen Wattenmaker.

What every husband knows. Now children, not another word! It's raw and chilly and you ... Credit: Library of Congress.

A Chilly morning. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He was chilly.

He opened the door of the theatre and halted in the chilly grey light that struggled through the dusty windows

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Malawi

From June through August, the lake areas and far south are comfortably warm, but the rest of Malawi can be chilly at night, with temperatures ranging from 5o-14oC (41o-57oF). (references)

Travel

Mexico

During the cooler part of the dry season (December to February) it may be chilly during the day and cold at night. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "chilly": be chilly ♦ damp and chilly ♦ feel chilly ♦ raw and chilly. Additional references.

Afrikaans

koud (bleak, cold). (various references)

Albanian

i ftohtë (algid, aloof, bleak, bloodless, brumous, cold, cold-livered, cool, cool blooded, crimpy, distant, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, insensitive, offish, Parky, sexless, stilted, stolid, stony, winterly, wintry), i freskët (breezy, cool, crisp, dewy, fresh, hot, new, new-laid, recent, sweet, unhackneyed, up to date), ftohtë (cold, coldly, drily, dryly, icily), armiqësor (adverse, antagonistic, antisocial, at sword's points, chill, enemy, enemy's, forbidding, hostile, inimical, opponent, subversive, unfriendly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاتر (apathetic, cold, cool, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, frigid, half hearted, indifferent, languid, listless, lukewarm, slack, spiritless, stagnant, tepid, unenthusiastic, unfriendly), ‏مقرور, ‏قارس (chilling, cutting, frigging, nippy, severe, sharp, shrewd), ‏قشعريري, ‏رهيب (bloodcurdling, bloody, dire, dreadful, fearful, fierce, grisly, gruesome, hairy, holy, horrible, horrific, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nightmarish, redoubtable, smashing, super, terrible, wretched), ‏بارد (bleak, boring, cold, coldish, cool, coolly, dank, distant, flat, glacial, meaningless, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, raw, silly, unfriendly, wintry). (various references)

Bavarian

koid (bleak, cold). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смразяващ, хладно (coldly, distantly, frostily, stonily, tepidly), хладен (chill, cold, cool, crisp, impersonal, inapproachable, lukewarm, passionless, tepid, unemotional, unmoved, wintry), неприветлив (austere, cold, forbidding, grim, stern, unaffable, unapproachable, ungracious, wintry), мразовит (frigid, frosty, ice cold, icy), зиморничав (cold blooded), люта чушка, лют червен пипер. (various references)

Chinese 

冷颤 (Chill). (various references)

Czech

chladný (bloodless, cold, cool, fresh, frigid, frosted), mrazivý (freezing, frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, nippy, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Danish

kold (bleak, cold). (various references)

Dutch

koud (bleak, cold, frigid), kil (bleak, cold). (various references)

Esperanto

malvarma (bleak, cold). (various references)

Faeroese

kaldur (bleak, cold, frigid). (various references)

Farsi 

سرد(chilled=), خنک (Breezy, Cool, Flat, Fresh, Icy, Vapid). (various references)

Finnish

kylmäkiskoinen (cold), kylmä (cold, frigid), kolea (bleak, raw), kalsea (bleak, raw). (various references)

French

froid (chill). (various references)

Frisian

kâld (bleak, cold). (various references)

German

kühl (businesslike, chill, cold, cool, distant, dry, frigid, level, Parky, smooth, standoffish, unemotional, unemotionally, unenthusiastic), frostig (chill, frigid, frostily, frosty), kalt (bleakly, cold, coldly, cool, frigid, gelid, perishing, stony, unloving). (various references)

Greek 

λίγο ψυχρός, ψυχρόσ (bleak, cold, cool, frigid, frosty). (various references)

Hebrew 

קריר (cool), קר (cold, cool, crisp, frigid, icy), צונן (cold, fresh, frigid, frosty). (various references)

Hungarian

hideg (algid, bleak, chill, chilling, cold, frigid, frosty, icy, metallic, steely, stony, to be frozen to the marrow), hűvös (chill, cold, cool, frosty, nick, parky, stiff, unresponsive), barátságtalan (austere, cold, crabby, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, gaunt, gruff, ill natured, inhospitable, pouty, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, unaccommodating, unaffable, unfriendly, unkind). (various references)

Icelandic

kaldur (bleak, cold). (various references)

Italian

freddo (bleak, chill, chilliness, cold, cold-hearted, coldness, cool, nonchalant, raw, stiff, winterly, wintry), fresco (blooming, breezy, cool, coolness, crisp, fresh, green, new, recent, shady, virgin, wet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膚寒い (unpleasantly cold), 薄ら寒い (rather cold, somewhat cold), 肌寒い (unpleasantly cold), 冷たい　 (cold to the touch, coldhearted, freezing, icy), 冷たい (cold, coldhearted, freezing, icy), 冷やか (cold, cold-hearted, composed, cool, curt, indifferent, surly), 冷やりとした (cold, cool), 冷ややか (cold, cold-hearted, composed, cool, curt, indifferent, surly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひやりとした (cold, cool), ひややか (cold, cold-hearted, composed, cool, curt, indifferent, surly), うすらさむい (rather cold, somewhat cold), つめたい (cold, coldhearted, freezing, icy), はだざむい (unpleasantly cold), はださむい (unpleasantly cold). (various references)

Korean 

차가운 (CooL). (various references)

Manx

feayr (cold, cool, distant, distant of person, frigid, frosty, icy). (various references)

Norwegian

kald (bleak, cold, frosty). (various references)

Papiamen

friu (bleak, cold, frigid). (various references)

Pig Latin

illychay.(various references)

Polish

zimny (bleak, cold). (various references)

Portuguese

frio (bleak, chill, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, devil-may-care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, iceness, ilium, impassive, lifeless, nipping, nonchalant, parky, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tepid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Romanian

rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry). (various references)

Russian 

холодно (acidly, coldly, frostily, icily, stonily), зябкий (cold blooded), прохладный прохладно, промозглый (dank). (various references)

Scottish

fuar (a. cold, bleak, cold). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sveže (freshly), svež (bracing, breezy, coldish, cool, crisp, dewy, fresh, new, recent, young), prohladno, prohladan (cool). (various references)

Spanish

frío (bleak, chill, cold, cool, distant, frigid, frosted, frosting, frosty, Parky, sharp, spent, stiff, uncommunicative), friolero (shivery). (various references)

Sranan

kowru (bleak, cold). (various references)

Swedish

kall (bleak, calling, cold, cool, frigid, frosty, frozen, mission, name, vocation). (various references)

Tagalog

malamíg (bleak, cold). (various references)

Turkish

soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry). (various references)

Turkmen 

ьюьtmek (feel chilly), зigremek (become chilly, become warm). (various references)

Ukrainian

сухо (coldly), сухий (arid, brut, drained, dried, dry, dryasdust, dusty, saharan, saharian, sear, sere, withered), холоднувато, холодно (acidly, coldly, frostily, stonily), холодний (arctic, bleak, chill, cold, frigid, gelid, icy, nippy, offish), вологий (dabby, damp, dank, humid, moisturizing, oozy, poachy, waterish, wet), непривітно (coldly), напружений (arduous, constrained, eager, high pressure, hot, prim, stiff, strained, stressful, strung, sulfurous, sulphurous, tensional, tight, wrought up), мерзлякуватий (cold blooded), бундючний (bombastic, cavalier, cockish, flatulent, haughty, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-hearted, mouth-filling, overly, pompous, puffed up, scenic, scenical, snobbish, snobby, swollen), прохолоний (chill). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lạnh nhạt (cold, cold-hearted, coldly, distant, drily, dry, dryly), lạnh lẽo (chill, cold, frigid), lạnh (chill, chilling, cold, nippy), giá lạnh ớn lạnh. (various references)

Welsh

rhynllyd (shivering), rhyndod (shivering), oerllyd (cool, frigid), oerfelog (cold), oeraidd (coldish, cool), oer (bleak, chill, cold, frigid, sad), fferllyd, anwydog (cold, having a cold, shivery). (various references)

Yucatec

ke'el (bleak, cold). (various references)

Zulu

-bandayo (bleak, cold). (various references)

frigida, frigidae, frigidam, frigidus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Chilly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chaillu, chall, Chalwyn, Chelly, Chigley, chigly, chil, childy, chilla, chille, Chilley, chillie, chilm, chilt, chily, chimley, chiol, chivly, Chollie, chrill, chull, cially, Csillik, killey, killy, Schally, Schily, shilly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chill, hilly.

-2 letters: hill, illy, lich, lily, yill.

-3 letters: chi, hic, ich, icy, ill.

-4 letters: hi, li.

+1 letter: childly, lichtly.

+2 letters: chillily, hillocky.

+3 letters: blotchily, coltishly, cultishly, ethically, helically, lyophilic, ohmically, slouchily.

+4 letters: chemically, childishly, chillingly, chlamydial, churlishly, clannishly, cliquishly, clownishly, ethnically, gothically, hectically, heliacally, heroically, microphyll, mythically, orphically, phatically, phonically, photically, physically, thetically, ticklishly.

+5 letters: aphetically, archaically, bellyaching, bronchially, calligraphy, chaotically, chronically, chucklingly, clinchingly, delphically, edaphically, graphically, hedonically, heretically, homicidally, ithyphallic, lichenology, lickerishly, mesophyllic, microphylls, parochially, phallically, psychically, spherically, technically, thermically, trophically, whimsically.