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chilling

chill·ing
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [chil-ing]
    • /ˈtʃɪl ɪŋ/
    • /ˈtʃɪl.ɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [chil-ing]
    • /ˈtʃɪl ɪŋ/

Definitions of chilling word

  • adjective chilling If you describe something as chilling, you mean it is frightening. 3
  • adjective chilling moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly: a chill wind. 1
  • adjective chilling shivering with or affected by cold; chilly. 1
  • adjective chilling depressing or discouraging: chill prospects. 1
  • adjective chilling Slang. cool (def 14). 1
  • adjective chilling unduly formal; unfriendly; chilly: a chill reception. 1

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Parts of speech for Chilling

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

chilling popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 86% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for chilling

adj chilling

  • shocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
  • thrilling — producing sudden, strong, and deep emotion or excitement.
  • eerie — uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird: an eerie midnight howl.
  • horrifying — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.

noun chilling

  • cooling — making one feel cool
  • refrigeration — the act or process of refrigerating.
  • regelation — a phenomenon in which the freezing point of water is lowered by the application of pressure; the melting and refreezing of ice, at constant temperature, caused by varying the pressure.

adjective chilling

  • frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • scary — causing fright or alarm.
  • alarming — Something that is alarming makes you feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
  • unsettling — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
  • distressing — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.

Antonyms for chilling

adjective chilling

  • reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.

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