stone cold

stone cold

See also: stonecold and stone-cold

English

Alternative forms

• stone-cold

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Adjective

stone cold

1. (idiomatic) Very cold; lacking any semblance of warmth.

   I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later.

2. (idiomatic) Certain; definite; obvious.

   Interest rate rise a 'stone-cold certainty' despite industry plea (The Independent, 6 November 2006)

Translations

very cold

Finnish: jääkylmä (fi)

definite

Finnish: vuorenvarma

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