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neighbour on the train from Glasgow.
coincidental
adj. chance, lucky or unlucky, fortuitous, accidental,
unexpected, unpredicted, unpredictable, unforeseen: It was
entirely coincidental that we were on the same train.
cold adj. 1 chill, chilly, frosty, icy, keen, nippy, freezing,
frigid, ice-cold, stone-cold, bitter, bitter-cold, raw, biting,
biting-cold, numbing, gelid; wintry, hibernal, brumal; arctic,
glacial, polar, hyperborean or hyperboreal, Siberian: It was so
cold that the canal had completely frozen over. 2 chilly,
chilled; unheated, heatless: The room is cold; we'd better put
the heating on. 3 indifferent, apathetic, chilly, chilling,
cool, icy, dispassionate, unsympathetic, aloof, unresponsive,
spiritless, frigid, unfriendly, uncordial, lukewarm, frigid;
cold-blooded, insensitive, uncaring, unemotional,
undemonstrative, reserved, unmoved, spiritless, callous, remote,
distant, standoffish, unapproachable, stony-hearted,
emotionless, unfeeling, cold-hearted: My ideas received rather
a cold reception. Because she had offended him, he was quite
cold to her. 4 depressing, cheerless, chilling, gloomy,
dispiriting, deadening, disheartening, bleak, dismal,
discouraging: The sweat stood out on his brow in cold
apprehension. 5 unmoving, stale, trite, stereotyped; dead: The
coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. 6 weak, faint,
stale, old, dead: The trail of the tiger had grown cold. 7
unprepared, unready: She hadn't studied and went into the exam
cold. 8 Often, getting cold. far, distant, remote, off the
track: As I searched for the weapon, I felt I was getting cold
the further I went from the kitchen.
--n. 9 coldness, frigidity, iciness: Last winter, the cold
killed off many of our shrubs. 10 head or chest or common cold,
influenza, ague, (la or the) grippe, Technical coryza, gravedo,
Colloq sniffles, the flu, bug, sneezles and wheezles: I caught
a cold waiting for you in the rain.
--adv. 11 completely, thoroughly, entirely, absolutely,
unhesitatingly, promptly, immediately, unreservedly, abruptly:
His application to join the police was turned down cold.
cold-blooded