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CHILLY
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Irregular inflected forms: chillier , chilliest
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
Synonyms:
chile; chili; chili pepper; chilli; chilly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("chilly" is a kind of...):
hot pepper (any of various pungent capsicum fruits)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chilly"):
jalapeno; jalapeno pepper (hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico)
cayenne; cayenne pepper (a long and often twisted hot red pepper)
Holonyms ("chilly" is a part of...):
Capsicum annuum longum; cayenne; cayenne pepper; chili pepper; chilli pepper; jalapeno; long pepper (plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red)
Holonyms ("chilly" is a substance of...):
chili powder (powder made of ground chili peppers mixed with e.g. cumin and garlic and oregano)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not characterized by emotion
Example:
a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues
Classified under:
Similar:
unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking warmth of feeling
Example:
a chilly greeting
Classified under:
Similar:
unfriendly (not disposed to friendship or friendliness)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Appreciably or disagreeably cold
Synonyms:
chilly; parky
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
cold (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration)
Derivation:
chill (coldness due to a cold environment)
chilliness (the property of being moderately cold)
Context examples:
Poor little Mowcher turned so chilly after all her crying and fretting, that she turned round on the fender, putting her poor little wet feet in among the ashes to warm them, and sat looking at the fire, like a large doll.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I'm going to take care of you, so don't cry any more, but come and walk about with me, the wind is too chilly for you to sit still, he said, in the half-caressing, half-commanding way that Amy liked, as he tied on her hat, drew her arm through his, and began to pace up and down the sunny walk under the new-leaved chestnuts.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I sat up in bed by way of arousing this said brain: it was a chilly night; I covered my shoulders with a shawl, and then I proceeded to think again with all my might.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The night was not so pleasant as the evening, for it got chilly; and being put between two gentlemen (the rough-faced one and another) to prevent my tumbling off the coach, I was nearly smothered by their falling asleep, and completely blocking me up.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When he offered her his arm, she took it with a look that filled him with delight, but when he asked if she missed him, she gave such a chilly, formal reply that despair fell upon him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Amy did not come, Meg went to her room to try on a new dress, Jo was absorbed in her story, and Hannah was sound asleep before the kitchen fire, when Beth quietly put on her hood, filled her basket with odds and ends for the poor children, and went out into the chilly air with a heavy head and a grieved look in her patient eyes.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
On a dark, misty, raw morning in January, I had left a hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart—a sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation—to seek the chilly harbourage of Lowood: that bourne so far away and unexplored.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Out in the garden stood a stately snow maiden, crowned with holly, bearing a basket of fruit and flowers in one hand, a great roll of music in the other, a perfect rainbow of an Afghan round her chilly shoulders, and a Christmas carol issuing from her lips on a pink paper streamer.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
