"coldly" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ˈkəʊldli/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkoʊldli/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-coldly.ogg [US] Forms: more coldly [comparative], most coldly [superlative]
enPR: kōldʹlē Etymology: From Middle English coldliche, caldeliche, perhaps borrowed from Old Norse kaldliga (“coldly”); equivalent to cold + -ly. Displaced Middle English colde (“coldly”), from Old English cealde (“coldly”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|coldliche}} Middle English coldliche, {{m|enm|caldeliche}} caldeliche, {{der|en|non|kaldliga|t=coldly}} Old Norse kaldliga (“coldly”), {{suf|en|cold|ly|id2=adverbial}} cold + -ly, {{cog|enm|colde|t=coldly}} Middle English colde (“coldly”), {{cog|ang|cealde|t=coldly}} Old English cealde (“coldly”) Head templates: {{en-adv}} coldly (comparative more coldly, superlative most coldly)
  1. in a cold or uncaring manner; indifferently. Translations (in a cold or uncaring manner): fredament (Catalan), malvarme (Esperanto), kylmästi (Finnish), froidement (French), ცივად (civad) (Georgian), fraidement (Norman), kaldt (Norwegian Bokmål), kaldt (Norwegian Nynorsk), friamente (Portuguese), fríamente (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "in a cold or uncaring manner",
      "word": "friamente"
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      "sense": "in a cold or uncaring manner",
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