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- were met with a chill gaze when they arrived home late from the party
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- this chill weather is making my teeth chatter
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- no one should be coatless on a chill night as this
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- the house's design may be cutting-edge, but it has a chill sterility about it that is anything but homey
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- black,
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- Cimmerian,
- cloudy,
- cold,
- comfortless,
- dark,
- darkening,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- dire,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- drear,
- dreary,
- dreich
- [chiefly Scottish],
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- godforsaken,
- gray
- (also grey),
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- morbid,
- morose,
- murky,
- plutonian,
- saturnine,
- sepulchral,
- solemn,
- somber
- (or sombre),
- sullen,
- sunless,
- tenebrific,
- tenebrous,
- wretched
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- blue,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- down,
- droopy,
- hangdog,
- inconsolable,
- low,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mirthless,
- sad,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful
- dim,
- discomfiting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- upsetting
- dour,
- grim,
- lowering
- (also louring),
- lowery
- (also loury),
- menacing,
- negative,
- oppressive,
- threatening
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chill
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of chill (Entry 2 of 3)
- there's a chill in the air, so you'd better wear a sweater
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chill
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of chill (Entry 3 of 3)
- chill the gelatin for two hours, until it sets
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- you want to hang out with us and just chill this weekend?
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- chill out
- [slang],
- de-stress,
- decompress,
- loosen up,
- mellow (out),
- relax,
- unwind,
- wind down
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- investors chilled by the floundering economy
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- instead of going out tonight, let's stay in and chill
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- bum,
- dally,
- dawdle,
- dillydally,
- drone,
- footle,
- goof (off),
- hack (around),
- hang (around or out),
- hang about
- [British],
- idle,
- kick around,
- kick back,
- laze,
- lazy,
- loaf,
- loll,
- lounge,
- veg out
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