chill
adjective
1. Moderately cold or chilly.
- A chill wind was blowing down the street.
2. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also: chill out.
- I'm pretty chill most of the time.
- Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
3. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
- That new movie was chill, man.
4. (slang) Okay, not a problem.
- "Sorry about that." "It's chill".
noun
1. coldness due to a cold environment
Similar word(s): gelidity, iciness
Definition categories: attribute, cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness
2. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
Similar word(s): frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle
Definition categories: feeling, fear, fearfulness, fright
3. a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
Similar word(s): shivering
Definition categories: state, symptom
4. a sudden numbing dread
Similar word(s): pall
Definition categories: feeling, apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread
Sentences with chill as a noun:
- There was a chill in the air.
- Close the window or you'll catch a chill.
- Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene.
verb
1. depress or discourage
- The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers
Definition categories: emotion, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit
2. make cool or cooler
- Chill the food
Similar word(s): cool
Definition categories: change, alter, modify
3. loose heat
Similar word(s): cool
Definition categories: change, turn
Sentences with chill as a verb:
- Chill before serving.
- In the wind he chilled quickly.
- Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
- The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
- Hey, we should chill this weekend.
- On Friday night do you wanna chill?
- Censorship chills public discource.