as cold as ice
Utterly without warmth
Describing something extremely cold, or someone utterly unfeeling.
The literal sense applies to frigid temperatures: The water was as cold as ice.
More often figurative, characterizing a person who shows no warmth or emotion: She stared at him, as cold as ice.
Often shortened to cold as ice or simply ice cold.
Without compassion or emotion
- stoicUncomplaining endurer of hardship
- impassiveWithout visible emotion
- detachedApart or uninvolved
- dispassionateFree from emotional involvement
expressionless · blank · deadpan · stony · robotic · wooden · flat · vacant
Emotionally withdrawn, uninviting
- distantFar away or aloof
- uncaringLacking emotional concern
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
- dismissiveShowing contemptuous disregard
unconcerned · detached · disinterested · nonchalant · standoffish · remote · unapproachable · cool
Extremely cold
- frigidExtremely and intensely cold
- subzeroBelow the freezing point
- frostbiteFreezing of body tissue
- hypothermiaDangerously low body temperature
shiver · numbness · icy · wintry · frozen · permafrost · rime · hoarfrost
Lacking any compassion
- mercilessShowing no clemency
- heartlessLacking pity or mercy
- callousCruelly insensitive to others
- pitilessLacking any compassion
brutal · harsh · calculating · cutthroat · remorseless · unsparing · hard-hearted · savage
unfeeling
Without compassion or emotion
dispassionate · expressionless · blank · deadpan · stony · robotic · wooden · flat · vacant · emotionless
aloof
Emotionally withdrawn, uninviting
dismissive · unconcerned · detached · disinterested · nonchalant · standoffish · remote · unapproachable · cool · frosty
freezing
Extremely cold
hypothermia · shiver · numbness · icy · wintry · frozen · permafrost · rime · hoarfrost · crystalline
ruthless
Lacking any compassion
pitiless · brutal · harsh · calculating · cutthroat · remorseless · unsparing · hard-hearted · savage · relentless
as cold as iceboiling hot
Extremely high temperature
red-hot · scalding · burning · white-hot · piping hot
as cold as icewarm-hearted
Disposed toward compassion
warm · affectionate · kind-hearted · loving · tender
as cold as icehot-blooded
Easily aroused emotionally
passionate · fiery · ardent · on fire · smoldering
cold, iced, coldness, icicle, colder, coldly, glacial, icicles, iciness