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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chilly \Chill"y\, adjective Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chilly
adjective
1: uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather" [syn: {chill}]
2: not characterized by emotion; "a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues"-C.W.Cunningham
3: lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting"; "an unfriendly manner" [syn: {unfriendly}]
noun: very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency [syn: {chili}, {chili pepper}, {chilli}, {chile}] [also: {chilliest}, {chillier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "chilly": Olympian, above all that, affectless, aguey, aguish, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blue with cold, blunt, bracing, catatonic, chattering, chill, chilled, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, coolish, crisp, detached, disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, dithery, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, freezing, fresh, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, frozen to death, gelid, glacial, guarded, half-frozen, heartless, hostile, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incompatible, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical, insusceptible, introverted, invigorating, modest, nippy, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, self-absorbed, shaky, shivering, shivery, shrinking, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, stimulating, strained, subdued, suppressed, temperate, tense, unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable, uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unreceptive, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, with chattering teeth, withdrawn
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