stone-cold
1 of 2adjective
ˈstōn-ˈkōld 
1
: completely cold
stone-cold soup
The weather was stone-cold and often gray, with a 20-mile-an-hour headwind scouring the backstretch.
Lorna Lentini
—often used figuratively Lorna Lentini a stone-cold killer… his stone-cold calculation was that he could score more money more quickly with a bat and glove. Scott Burton
Scott Burton2
US, informal : absolute, utter
In the last decade, DNA tests have provided stone-cold proof that 69 people were sent to prison and death row in North America for crimes they did not commit. Jim Dwyer et al.
Jim Dwyer et al.stone-cold
2 of 2adverb
US, informal
: absolutely, utterly
stone-cold sober
Walter Anderson was a stone-cold handsome guy, a tall, powerfully built man with a thick head of wavy blond hair … Edgar Allen Beam
Edgar Allen Beam
Word History
First Known Use
Adjective
1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adverb
1898, in the meaning defined above
stone-cold
adverb
as in cold
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- cold
- downright
- plain
- absolutely
- stone
- dead
- flat
- utterly
- unqualifiedly
- clean
- categorically
- wholly
- fast
- completely
- entirely
- perfectly
- totally
- full
- wide
- entire
- quite
- even
- all
- plumb
- soundly
- fully
- thoroughly
- out
- enough
- all of
- predominantly
- hands down
- mostly
- basically
- all over
- heartily
- largely
- principally
- altogether
- chiefly
- predominately
- substantially
- primarily
- generally
- well
- mainly
- through and through
- exactly
- overall
- by and large
- more or less
- generously
- abundantly
- copiously
- greatly
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- partially
- halfway
- partly
- half
- just
- slightly
- hardly
- barely
- scarcely
- superficially
- marginally
- somewhat
- incompletely
- minimally
- part
- roughly
- approximately
- kind of
- (as) guilty as sin
- (as) guilty/miserable/ugly as sin
- (as) happy as a clam
- (as) hard/tough as nails
- (as) keen as mustard
- (as) large as life
- (as) near as someone can tell/figure
- (as) plain as day
- (as) plain as the nose on your face
- (as) pleased as punch
- (as) pretty as a picture
- (as) pure as the driven snow
- (as) quick as a wink
- (as) right as rain
- (as) sick as a dog
- (as) smooth as silk
- (as) sober as a judge
- (as) solid as a rock
- (as) sound as a bell
- (as) stubborn as a mule
- (as) sure as I'm standing here
- (as) tough as old boots
- (as) ugly as sin
- (as) warm as toast
- (at) any minute (now)