bitter cold
Harsh winter temperature
Bitter cold is extreme, penetrating cold—the kind that stings exposed skin and makes being outside painful.
The phrase treats cold as something harsh and hostile, like a bitter taste or bitter enemy.
We huddled inside during the bitter cold of January.
Often used as a noun phrase: a bitter cold settled over the region.
- freezingExtremely cold
- deep freezeIntense prolonged cold
- frigidExtremely and intensely cold
- icyFrozen or unfriendly
- frostThin ice coating
Jack Frost · frostbite · numbing · biting · wind chill factor · harsh · winter · dead of winter · subzero · below zero · arctic · polar · polar vortex · freezing point · windchill · shivering · bone-chilling · raw
- Cold Expressionsbone-chilling, frigid, icy, frosty, chilly
- wintersnow, ice, frozen, frost, icicle
- Coldfrigid, frozen, icy, freezing, chilly
- Cold Sensationschill, chills, shiver, shivers, shivering
- cold weatherfreeze, frigid, subzero, below zero, deep freeze
- Extreme Conditionsblizzard, hurricane, tornado, typhoon, heatwave
bitter coldoppressive heat
Unbearably hot conditions
boiling hot · burning hot · torrid · white-hot · red-hot
bitter coldmild
Moderate in intensity
temperate · moderate · balmy · gentle warmth · cozy warmth
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