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Synonyms of chilly in English:

chilly


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adjective

1‘the weather had turned chilly’

SYNONYMS
cold, cool, crisp, fresh, brisk, bleak, wintry, snowy, frosty, icy, ice-cold, icy-cold, glacial, polar, arctic, raw, sharp, bitter, bitterly cold, biting, piercing, penetrating, freezing, frigid
informal nippy
British informal parky, Baltic
literary chill
rare gelid, brumal
ANTONYMS

warm

2‘I woke up feeling chilly’

SYNONYMS
cold, frozen, frozen stiff, frozen to the bone, frozen to the core, frozen to the marrow, freezing, freezing cold, bitterly cold, shivery, numb, numbed, chilled

3‘her chilly face splintered into a smile’

SYNONYMS
unfriendly, unsympathetic, unwelcoming, forbidding, cold, cool, frosty, glacial, frigid
haughty, supercilious, disdainful, aloof, distant, remote
reserved, withdrawn, uncommunicative, unresponsive, unemotional, dispassionate, passionless, wooden, impersonal, formal, stiff, austere
informal stand-offish, offish
rare gelid
ANTONYMS

friendly