chilly
IPA: tʃˈɪɫi
noun
- Alternative spelling of chili. [(countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.]
adjective
- Cold enough to cause discomfort.
- Feeling uncomfortably cold.
- (figuratively) Distant and cool; unfriendly.
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Examples of "chilly" in Sentences
- You both live in chilly places, Ann in Minneapolis and Liv in Norway.
- Jensen and myself, discussing this film and pornography at Augsburg College in chilly MN.
- What is the most striking features is obviously the fireplace on the outside, which seems to be keeping you cool as you hang out in chilly winter nights in the little patio area!
- We don't really do sandwiches except grilled cheese, which won't work, so I don't know if she'll be cool with that or not, and a two-hour nature walk in chilly weather seems like not the day to test that.
- There is a linkage between blue eyes, blond hair and fair skin, which is supposedly of adaptive advantage in chilly northern latitudes; there also seems to be some kind of link with adult lactose tolerance.
- The temperature which, at this time of the year, is usually warm and genial, continued to be what they called chilly, though I found it agreeable enough, and the showy trees, called the _Pride of India_, which are planted all over the city, and are generally in bloom at this season, were still leafless.
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