chilly
US: /ˈtʃɪɫi/
UK: /tʃˈɪli/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
chilly /'tʃili/- tính từ
- lạnh, lạnh lẽo, giá lạnh
- a chilly room: căn buồng lạnh lẽo
- ớn lạnh, rùng mình (vì lạnh)
- lạnh lùng, lạnh nhạt
- chilly manners: cử chỉ lạnh nhạt
- lạnh, lạnh lẽo, giá lạnh
- danh từ
- (như) chilli
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective1 (especially of the weather or a place, but also of people) too cold to be comfortable: It's chilly today. + I was feeling chilly.
2 not friendly: The visitors got a very chilly reception.
chilliness noun [U]
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 cool, coldish, cold, frigid, nippy, frosty, icy, crisp, chill:
The weather has been quite chilly for May.
2 chill, unenthusiastic, unresponsive, unreceptive, frosty, unwelcoming, crisp, cool, cold, unfriendly, hostile; distant, aloof:
The suggestion that the charity fair be held in her garden met with a chilly response from Lady Griffiths.
Collocation
VERBS
be, feel
She was beginning to feel chilly.
| get
We were starting to get a bit chilly.
| turn (only used about the weather)
It turned chilly in the afternoon.
ADV.
decidedly, distinctly, very | a bit, pretty, quite, rather, somewhat
Concise dictionary
chillier|chilliest'tʃɪlɪnoun
+very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
adj.
+uncomfortably cool
+not characterized by emotion
+lacking warmth of feeling
