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COLD AS CHARITY

Specialty Definition: COLD AS CHARITY

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Literature

Cold as Charity (See Charity ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: COLD AS CHARITY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cold

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.

Insensibility

Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: COLD AS CHARITY

Expression using "COLD AS CHARITY": as cold as charity. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: COLD AS CHARITY

Language Translations for "COLD AS CHARITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Thai

  

เย็นชา ((as) cold as charity, cold, cool, dry, hardboiled), เย็นมาก ((as) cold as charity). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sevgisiz (as cold as charity, unloving), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, blunt, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, senseless, soulless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COLD AS CHARITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-h-i-l-o-r-s-t-y"

-3 letters: acrostical, scratchily.

-4 letters: acroliths, cachalots, cartloads, caryatids, catholics, characids, charcoals, chrysalid, clochards, coalyards, corydalis, dactylics, hyracoids, rascality, starchily, thyroidal, trochaics.

-5 letters: acholias, acrolith, acrostic, acrylics, actorish, adroitly, aircoach, alacrity, archaist, cachalot, cacodyls, calathos, calorics, caracols, cardiacs, cariocas, carloads, carotids, cartload, caryatic, caryatid, cathodal, cathodic, catholic, chalcids, characid, charcoal, chariots, charlady, chlorids, citharas, clochard.

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

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