chill
/tʃɪl/ adjective C2- Moderately cold or chilly. · A chill wind was blowing down the street.
- Unwelcoming; not cordial. · Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception.
- Calm, relaxed, easygoing. · The teacher is really chill and doesn't care if you use your phone during class.· Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
- "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group. · That new movie was chill, man.
- Okay, not a problem. · Sorry about that. —It's chill.
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The air had turned chill and we withdrew into the hut for warmth.
“Well, maybe a wee nip would keep out the raw morning chill.
It is a chill evening, and I do not know how long our expedition may last; so I beg that you will wear your warmest coats.
Spencer, bustling her guests through the hall into the parlor, where a deadly chill struck on them as if the air had been strained so long through dark green, closely drawn blinds that it had lost every particle of warmth it had ever possessed.
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