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"cold" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often chilly (6 letters).
Definitions
lacking the warmth of life
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English cold, from Anglian Old English cald. The West Saxon form, ċeald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalaną (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Used in a sentence
“A cold wind whistled through the trees.”
“As cold waters to a thirstie soule: so is good newes from a farre countrey.”
“Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer10 curated clues
01“Chilly feeling”4 letters
02“Chilly temperature”4 letters
03“Lacking heat”4 letters
04“Like ice water”4 letters
05“Like winter air”4 letters
06“Low in temperature”4 letters
07“Opposite of warm”4 letters
08“Winter feeling”4 letters
09“Winter-like”4 letters
10“Wintery”4 letters
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