"stone cold" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-stone cold.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|adjective}} stone cold
  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)
    Sense id: en-stone_cold-en-adj-nU3VDKQo Disambiguation of Temperature: 84 10 6 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, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 4 56 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 26 5 69 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 30 5 65 Disambiguation of 'definite': 1 2 97

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