1 (especially of the weather or a place, but also of people) too cold to be comfortable:
It's chilly today. * I was feeling chilly.
2 not friendly:
The visitors got a very chilly reception.
chilliness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for chilly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is chilly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, chilly is tagged as adjective.
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