| Zusätzliche Übersetzungen |
WordReference English-German Dictionary © 2026:
| cold adj | figurative (unfriendly) (übertragen) | kalt Adj |
| | | ablehnend V Part Präs |
| | | reserviert Adj |
| | While he is cold in public, those who know him understand that he is still a nice person. |
| cold adj | figurative (indifferent) | abweisend V Part Präs |
| | My boss was cold to my idea of a new product line. |
| cold adj | (dead) | tot Adj |
| | When the police arrived, they discovered two cold bodies. |
| cold adj | informal (out cold: unconscious) (ugs: übertragen) | weggetreten Adj |
| | | bewusstlos Adj |
| | The boxer was knocked cold and the match was stopped. |
| cold adj | figurative (rational, unemotional) | objektiv Adj |
| | The judge's cold reasoning followed the law but enraged the victim's family. |
| cold adj | figurative (sexually: frigid) | frigide Adj |
| | He wanted to make love to her, but found her very cold. |
| cold adj | figurative (far from target) | weit daneben Adj + Adv |
| | His guesses at the answer continued to be cold. He really had no idea. |
| cold adj | figurative (unprepared) (Sport) | nicht aufgewärmt Adv + V Part Perf |
| | (allgemein) | nicht vorbereitet Adv + V Part Perf |
| | He's not ready to go into the game. He's still cold. |
| cold adv | (unprepared) | unvorbereitet Adj |
| | When the star player was injured, his backup went in cold. He had no time to get ready. |
| cold adv | (unintroduced) (umgangssprachlich) | einfach so Adj + Adv |
| | The salesman was given no leads, and had to call potential customers cold. |
| cold adv | US (completely) | komplett Adj |
| | He stopped cold after seeing the body. |
| Zusammengesetzte Wörter: |
WordReference English-German Dictionary © 2026:
| bad cold n | (severe cold virus) | Grippe Nf |
| | | schlimme Erkältung Adj + Nf |
| | She's home with a bad cold. |
| bitter cold n | (weather: freezing) | eisig, eiskalt Adj |
| | | bitterkalt Adj |
| | The older she gets, the less she can tolerate the bitter cold. |
| bitterly cold adj | (intensely cold) | bitterkalt Adj |
| | | extrem kalt Adj + Adj |
| | | sehr kalt Adv + Adj |
| | You need very warm clothing to survive the bitterly cold weather in the Arctic. |
| blow hot and cold v expr | figurative (waver, vacillate) | mal so mal so Rdw |
| | | schwanken Vi |
| | | unbeständig sein Adj + Vt |
catch a cold,
catch cold,
take a cold v expr | (contract cold virus) | erkälten Vr |
| | If you go out in this rain without a coat you're liable to catch a cold. |
catch your death,
catch your death of cold v expr | informal (catch a bad cold) (übertragen) | sich den Tod holen Rdw |
| | | krank werden Adj + Vt |
| cold brew n | (coffee made with cool water) | kalt gebrühter Kaffee Rdw |
| cold brew adj | (coffee: made with cool water) | kalt gebrüht Adj + V Part Perf |
| cold call n | (unsolicited sales visit or phone call) | Kaltanruf Nm |
| | | Kaltakquise Nf |
| | | unangemeldeter Anruf Adj + Nm |
| | I got my start in sales by making door-to-door cold calls. |
| cold calling n | (making unsolicited sales calls) | Kaltanruf Nm |
| | | Kaltakquise Nf |
| | | unangemeldeter Anruf Adj + Nm |
| | Do you prefer to make your sales contacts by cold calling or direct mail? |
| cold cash n | (currency) | Bargeld Nn |
| | | bares Geld Adj + Nn |
| | | bare Münze Adj + Nf |
| | Davis paid the workers in cold cash. |
| cold cuts npl | chiefly US (meat served cold) | Aufschnitt Nm |
| | The buffet included a selection of cold cuts. |
| cold feet n | (loss of courage) (übertragen) | kalte Füße Adj + Npl |
| | Everyone gets nervous before their wedding; it's just cold feet. |
| cold fish n | figurative, informal (person: unfriendly) | jemand, der wie ein kalter Fisch ist Rdw |
| | | herzloser Mensch Adj + Nm |
| | | gefühlloser Mensch Adj + Nm |
| | She's such a cold fish that she wouldn't even talk to me when I said hello. |
| cold front n | (cool air pushing forward) (Meteorologie) | Kaltluftfront Nf |
| | | kalte Luft Adj + Nf |
| | The weather will get nasty due to the cold front pushing in from the North. |
| cold heart n | figurative (lack of compassion) | kaltes Herz Adj + Nn |
| | She had a cold heart and nothing I could say or do would melt it. |
| cold meat n | US (meat: cooked, sliced) (ugs) | Wurst Nf |
| | | Aufschnitt Nm |
| | What do you want in your sandwich: cheese, or cold meat? |
cold meat sandwich,
cold-meat sandwich n | US (food) | Fleischaufschnittsandwich, Aufschnittsandwich Nn |
| cold-shoulder [sb]⇒ vtr | figurative, informal (snub) (übertragen) | jmdm die kalte Schulter zeigen Rdw |
| | | jmdn abblitzen lassen Vi, sepa + Vt |
| | (übertragen) | jmdn links liegen lassen Rdw |
| | The villagers cold-shouldered the newcomer from the capital. |
| cold snap n | (period: cold weather) | Kälteeinbruch Nm |
| | | kühle Temperaturen Adj + Npl |
| | The recent cold snap killed my tomato plants. |
| cold sore n | (herpes on lip) | Fieberbläschen Nn |
| | | Herpesbläschen Nn |
| | | Fieberblase Nf |
| | I never kiss anyone with a cold sore. |
| cold spell n | (period of cold weather) | Kälteeinbruch Nm |
| | | Kältewelle Nf |
| | After the heat wave there was a cold spell, much to everyone's relief |
| | Nach der Hitzewelle kam der Kälteeinbruch, zu jederman's Erleichterung. |
| cold sweat n | (from fear, illness) (Krankheit) | kalter Schweiß Adj + Nm |
| | (Emotion) | Angstschweiß Nm |
| cold turkey n | (leftover turkey meat served cold) | kalter Truthahn Adj + Nm |
| | Since Christmas we have been eating cold turkey sandwiches every day. |
| cold turkey n | figurative (sudden withdrawal from [sth] addictive) | kalter Entzug Adj + Nm |
| | Some people believe that cold turkey is the only way to beat addiction. |
| cold turkey adv | (abruptly, without support) | von heute auf morgen Rdw |
| | | einfach so Adj + Adv |
| | He quit smoking, and he did it cold turkey. |
| cold turkey adj | (abrupt and sudden) | von heute auf morgen Rdw |
| | | einfach so Adj + Adv |
| | Cold turkey withdrawal from any drug is very difficult. |
| the Cold War n | (hostility: Soviet Union and West) | kalter Krieg Adj + Nm |
| | Many people were believed to be spies during the Cold War. |
| cold war n | (hostility short of armed warfare) (zwischen USA und UdSSR) | Kalter Krieg En |
| | (allgemein) | kalter Krieg Adj + Nm |
| cold war n | figurative (on-going veiled antagonism) (übertragen) | kalter Krieg Adj + Nm |
| cold water n | (water: not hot) | kaltes Wasser Adj + Nn |
| | The football team poured cold water on the coach's head. |
| cold wave n | (period of extremely cold weather) | Kältewelle Nf |
| | | lang anhaltende Kälte Rdw |
| | The weather bureau forecast a cold wave. |
| cold wave n | (hairdressing: type of perm) | Kaltwelle Nf |
| cold weather n | (chilly conditions) | Kälte Nf |
| | | kaltes Wetter Adj + Nn |
| | | kühles Wetter Adj + Nn |
| Anmerkung: A hyphen is used when the term is a modifier. |
| | We are going north, so prepare for cold weather! |
cold weather,
cold-weather n as adj | (for chilly conditions) | kalt Adj |
| | | kühl Adj |
cold-blooded,
also US: coldblooded adj | (animal) | kaltblütig Adj |
| Anmerkung: The hyphen may be omitted when the adjective follows the noun. |
| | Cold-blooded animals can't regulate their body heat like warm-blooded animals do. |
cold-blooded,
also US: coldblooded adj | figurative (person: emotionless) (übertragen) | kaltherzig Adj |
| | | gefühllos Adj |
| | (übertragen) | herzlos Adj |
| Anmerkung: The hyphen may be omitted when the adjective follows the noun. |
| | They say the convict is a cold-blooded killer. |
cold-blooded,
also US: coldblooded adj | figurative (act: cruel, showing no mercy) (übertragen) | kaltblütig Adj |
| | | grausam Adj |
| | | brutal Adj |
| Anmerkung: The hyphen may be omitted when the adjective follows the noun. |
| | The massacre was a cold-blooded, ruthless act. |
| cold-bloodedly adv | (cruelly, without mercy) | brutal Adj als Adv |
| | | skrupellos Adj als Adv |
| | | kaltblütig Adj als Adv |
| | The man was jailed for life for cold-bloodedly killing two innocent people. |
| cold-call [sb]⇒ vtr | (make unsolicited sales visit or phone call) (übertragen) | Kaltquise bei jmdm betreiben Rdw |
| | | bei jmdn Telefonwerbung betreiben VP |
| | He cold-called all the people on his contact list. |
| | Er betrieb bei allen Leuten auf seiner Kontaktliste eine Kaltaquise. |
coldhearted (US),
cold-hearted (UK) adj | (lacking compassion) (übertragen) | kaltherzig Adj |
| | | gefühllos Adj |
| | (übertragen) | abgestumpft Adj |
| | The way they went in and grabbed their mother's stuff seemed pretty cold-hearted. |
| common cold n | (cold virus) | Erkältung Nf |
| | (vage) | Schnupfen Nm |
| | There's no cure for the common cold. |
| freezing cold n | (sub-zero temperatures) | Eiseskälte Nf |
| | All my delicate plants died last night in the freezing cold. |
| freezing cold adj | figurative (extremely cold) | eiskalt Adj |
| | She may have a warm heart but on the outside she's freezing cold. |
| get cold feet v expr | figurative, informal (abandon [sth] due to anxiety) (übertragen) | kalte Füße bekommen Rdw |
| | He was starting to get cold feet about the wedding. |
| give [sb] the cold shoulder v expr | figurative, informal (snub) (übertragen) | jmdm die kalte Schulter zeigen Rdw |
| | | ignorieren Vt |
| | After the incident, they all gave her the cold shoulder. |
| go cold turkey v expr | (addiction: quit abruptly) (ugs) | einen kalten Entzug machen Rdw |
| | The addict decided the only way to break his habit was to go cold turkey. |
| grow cold vi + adj | (weather) | kalt werden Adj + Vi |
| | | abkühlen Vr, sepa |
| | After nightfall, the desert really grows cold. |
| grow cold vi + adj | figurative (feelings) (umgangssprachlich) | abflauen Vi, sepa |
| | | schwächer werden Adj + Vi |
| | | abnehmen Vi, sepa |
| | Selena's love for Eric had grown cold. |
| have a cold v expr | (be suffering from the cold virus) | erkältet sein Adj + Vt |
| | | eine Erkältung haben Rdw |
| | I don't feel like going out today because I have a cold. |
have [sth] down cold,
also US: have [sth] down pat v expr | US, informal (know, understand [sth] completely) | [etw] aus dem Effeff beherrschen Rdw |
| | | [etw] etwas im Schlaf können Rdw |
| | She scored 100% on her Spanish test because she had the conjugations down cold. |
| have [sb] down cold v expr | US, informal (understand [sb]'s character) | jemanden durchschauen Vt, fix |
| head cold n | (viral infection) (Schnupfen, Husten) | Erkältung Nf |
| | (Fieber) | Grippe Nf |
| ice-cold adj | (extremely cold to touch) | eiskalt Adj |
| | | bitterkalt Adj |
| | | eisig Adj |
| ice-cold adj | (without emotion) | eiskalt Adj |
| | | gefühlskalt Adj |
| | | kaltherzig Adj |
| in cold blood adv | figurative (without emotion) | kaltblütig, eiskalt Adj |
| | The gunman killed his victim in cold blood. |
| out cold adj | informal (unconscious) (übertragen) | weggetreten Adj |
| | | ohnmächtig Adj |
| | | bewusstlos Adj |
| | | ohne Bewusstsein Präp + Nn |
stone cold,
stone-cold adj | figurative (completely cold) | eiskalt Adj |
| | (Wetter) | bitterkalt Adj |
| streaming cold n | (bad cold) | schlimme Erkältung Adj + Nf |
| | | starke Erkältung Adj + Nf |
| | | sehr erkältet Adv + Adj |
