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Definition of Stone-cold
1. Adjective. Completely cold. "By the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold"
Definition of Stone-cold
1. Adjective. Without emotion. ¹
2. Adjective. Completely cold ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stone-cold
Literary usage of Stone-cold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Venetian Life by William Dean Howells (1907)
"THE WINTER IN VENICE THE INCLEMENCY OF A MILD CLIMATE — STOVES INTRODUCED BY THE
GERMANS AT VENICE — STONE FLOORS AND stone-cold ROOMS — THE NATIONAL ..."
2. Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers by Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (1893)
"One was made with cold stone, cold water and cold sand ; another with warm sand,
warm stone and warm water ; and another with cold stone, cold sand and cold ..."
3. The North Lonsdale Magazine and Lake District Miscellany by James P. Morris (1867)
"Stone cold ! Sware I not that time should never From my heart her image sever !
... Stone cold 1 Whilst defying, Faith is fleeting, Doubt within me wildly ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"It's — it's stone-cold." " That's awfully kind of you. It's just right. It's awfully
good of you, really. I'll leave my kids and goats with you and Mrs. Jim ..."
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