"stone cold" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-stone cold.ogg
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  1. Very cold; lacking any semblance of warmth. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Temperature Synonyms: stone-cold, stonecold Derived forms: stone-cold fox Translations (very cold): jääkylmä (Finnish), muito frio (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-stone_cold-en-adj-nU3VDKQo Disambiguation of Temperature: 100 0 0 Disambiguation of 'very cold': 99 0 1
  2. Lacking emotion or compassion. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-stone_cold-en-adj-7-5jvvd-
  3. Certain; definite; obvious. Tags: idiomatic Translations (definite): vuorenvarma (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-stone_cold-en-adj-JWS2jbjF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 4 56 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 32 10 58 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 34 4 61 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 4 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 23 12 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 20 10 71 Disambiguation of 'definite': 1 2 97

Alternative forms

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