Pronunciations
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/ˈt͡ʃɪli/
Pronunciation notes
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Adjective
Cold enough to cause discomfort.
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[…] The Aſparagus grew; but in three or four Years complained, by coming up ſmall; occaſioned by the chilly Effluvia, that proceeded from the Water lodg'd at the bottom of the Pit; […]
The Alps, the woods, and marſhes of the vaſt region of Scandinavia (for I will conſider it in the great) give ſhelter to numbers of quadrupeds unknown to Britain. Thoſe who brave the ſeverity of the extreme north of this country are diſtinguiſhed by the addition of the Lapland name. The Elk, Nº 3 of this Work, is found in many parts: the Rein, Godde, Nº 4, is confined to the chillieſt places: […]
The fogs were ſucceeded by ſhowery weather, which promoted vegetation as much as the chilly nights would permit; but, after a ſhort time, theſe chilly nights were accompanied with chilly days, and the progreſs of Nature received a ſecond check, though not unfavourable in the main.
There was an earthy savour in the air, a chilly bareness in the place, which associated itself somehow with too much getting up by candle-light, and not too much to eat.
Nothing like a slock of cake on a chilly evening, is there?
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This will feel like a dream compared to the chilly high temperatures forecast from the mid-Atlantic to New England, where you’ll be lucky to see the mercury in the thermometer climb out of the 40’s.
Even with chillier weather approaching, cold drinks are popular with Starbucks customers, accounting for roughly 75% of Starbucks’ total beverage US sales in its most recent quarter.
The chilliest game in the NFL’s history took place on New Year’s Eve of 1967, when the Green Bay Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, according to the NFL.
On the day that RAIL meets Mick Whelan, it's during a particularly chilly cold snap. A story has broken in the national press about train drivers refusing to walk to their cabs at Edge Hill depot, because the paths to the trains have not been cleared of snow.
Feeling uncomfortably cold.
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I’m getting rather chilly over here – could you shut the window please?
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June 18. Rain'd all Day, and I ſtay'd within. I thought at this Time the Rain felt Cold, and I was ſomething chilly, which I knew was not uſual in that Latitude.
And now, behold, with the first imagination of danger, or, if you will, the first mighty and terrific trial of your courage, you shrink away, and are content to be handed down as men who had not strength enough to endure cold and peril; and so, poor souls, they were chilly and returned to their warm fire-sides.
Distant and cool; unfriendly.
Usage- Figurative
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She gave me a chilly look when I made the suggestion.
Her smile is chilly—and her beam, In that time of dreariness, will seem (So like you gather in your breath) A portrait taken after death.
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Jens gave a little chilly laugh and took his hand: "I shan't ever forget the day I moved here, no, you can bet your life!—and now I've got to see if I can't move in here once more."
Lord Alton's black brows rose. His features became perceptibly harder, his blue gaze perceptibly chillier. "Have you taken leave of your senses, Duckett?"
An example of an effort to extend American civil procedure into the international arena is the history of the American Law Institute/Unidroit Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure. When the American Law Institute first attempted to address transnational civil procedure in the early 1990's, it came up with a set of Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure based on the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Foreign jurists gave this first effort a chilly reception.
Adjective
not characterized by emotion
appreciably or disagreeably cold
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lacking warmth of feeling
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a chilly greeting
Noun
very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
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