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chilling

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of chilling

uncomfortably cool
  • a Southern visitor who was unused to the chilling air of a Northeast winter
Synonyms of chilling

bitter, bleak, chill, chilly, nipping, nippy, raw, sharp
Words Related to chilling

bracing, brisk, crisp, invigorating, rigorous, snappy

arctic, cold, coolish, freezing, frigid, frosty, glacial, ice-cold, icy, numbing, polar, shivery, wintry (also wintery)

subfreezing, subzero

frore, frosted, frozen, iced, refrigerated, unheated
Near Antonyms of chilling

balmy, warm

lukewarm, tepid

heated, warmed

chilling

verb , present participle of chill

Synonyms and Antonyms of chilling

1 to cause to lose heat
  • chill the gelatin for two hours, until it sets
Synonyms of chilling

cooling, refrigerating
Words Related to chilling

air-conditioning

freezing, frosting, icing, quick-freezing, supercooling

ventilating
Near Antonyms of chilling

baking, boiling, broiling, steaming

heat-treating, tempering

microwaving
Antonyms of chilling

heating, toasting, warming
2 to get rid of nervous tension or anxiety
  • you want to hang out with us and just chill this weekend?
Synonyms of chilling

chilling out [slang], decompressing, de-stressing, loosening up, mellowing (out), relaxing, unwinding, winding down
Words Related to chilling

unbending

basking, kicking back, lolling, lounging, reposing, resting

bumming, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, footling, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging (around or out), idling, lazing, loafing, vegetating, vegging out, zoning out

alleviating, comforting, easing, relieving

calming, composing, cooling, quieting, settling
Phrases Synonymous with chilling

hanging loose
Antonyms of chilling

tensing (up)
3 to lessen the courage or confidence of
  • investors chilled by the floundering economy
Synonyms of chilling

daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, frustrating, unmanning, unnerving
Words Related to chilling

browbeating, bullying, cowing, intimidating

depressing, saddening, weighing

afflicting, trying

dampening, damping, deadening

distressing, troubling

bothering, irking, vexing, worrying

debilitating, enfeebling, undermining, weakening

frightening, horrifying, scaring
Phrases Synonymous with chilling

throwing cold water on
Near Antonyms of chilling

buoying (up), cheering, gladdening

animating, enlivening, invigorating

enforcing, fortifying, reinforcing (also reenforcing), strengthening

assuring, reassuring

boosting, energizing, exciting, galvanizing, inspiring, lifting, provoking, quickening, rallying, stimulating, stirring
Antonyms of chilling

emboldening, encouraging, heartening, nerving, steeling
4 to spend time doing nothing
  • instead of going out tonight, let's stay in and chill
Synonyms of chilling

bumming, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, footling, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging about [British], hanging (around or out), idling, kicking around, kicking back, lazing, lazying, loafing, lolling, lounging, vegging out
Words Related to chilling

fiddling (around), fooling, messing, monkeying, mucking, piddling, playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling

dozing, estivating (also aestivating), hibernating

lagging, lingering, loitering, poking, relaxing, resting, tarrying

ambling, moseying, sauntering, strolling, swanning

furloughing, goldbricking, malingering, truanting
Phrases Synonymous with chilling

killing time, twiddling one's thumbs
Near Antonyms of chilling

drudging, grinding, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging, plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, sweating, toiling, travailing, working

applying, buckling (down)

exerting, putting out

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