bone chilling
Intensely cold; horrifying
Bone chilling describes cold so intense it seems to penetrate to the skeleton: a bone-chilling wind swept across the frozen lake.
More often figurative, it characterizes anything that provokes deep fear or dread: a bone-chilling scream, bone-chilling footage of the attack.
The image suggests cold that bypasses surface defenses to reach your core.
- spine-tinglingCausing thrilled fear
- blood-curdlingExtremely frightening, viscerally
- hair-raisingExtremely frightening or alarming
- terrifyingEvoking extreme fear
- eerieDisturbingly strange
creepy · haunting · ghost story · dead of night · frostbite · cold snap · arctic blast · icy · freezing · frigid · frozen stiff · shiver · ice cold · goosebumps · dread · horror · macabre · sinister
- Cold Expressionsfreezing cold, bitter cold, cold snap, cold spell, frigid
- temperaturehot, cold, warm, cool, freezing
- horrorhorror, terror, fear, dread, haunted
bone chillingtoasty
Comfortably heated
sweltering · scorching · balmy · tropical · piping hot
bone chillingheartwarming
Evoking tender positive feelings
comforting · reassuring · soothing · uplifting · feel-good
bone, chill, bones, boned, boning, boneless, chills, chilled, chilling