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7. discouraging, depressing, disheartening, dispiriting, distressing; bleak, gloomy, dismal, sorry, woeful. -v. 8. refrigerate, freeze, cool, frigorify, Rare, in-frigidate, Rare, frigidate; ice, glaciate, congeal, regelate; numb, benumb, petrify; nip, cut, pierce, pinch, bite, sting. chilly, adj. 1. cold, frigid; cool, nippy. See chill (def- 3).
2. indifferent, unresponsive, impassive; unfriendly, unsociable. See chill (defs. 5, 6). chime, v. 1. peal, toll, gong, dong, ring, clang, clangor; ding, ting, jingle, tinkle; sound, resound, reverberate; (of time) announce, indicate, mark, ring in, bring, usher in.
2. chime in a. harmonize, blend; complement, enhance. b. interrupt, break into, SI. butt in, SI. horn in, intrude into, add or put in one's two cents worth. -n. 3. chimes bells, carillon, glockenspiel; gong, Angelus, tocsin, chimera, n. 1. monster, monstrosity, Gorgon. See monster (def 1).
2. idle fancy, whim, humor, caprice, crotchet, bubble, vapor, maggot; daydream, dream, Inf. pipe-dream, castle in the air, pie in the sky, fool's paradise; figment of the imagination, hallucination, mirage, illusion; delusion, self-delusion, deception, self-deception, trick.
3. bugbear, bugaboo, bogy, Inf bogyman; goblin, hobgoblin, ogre, spectre, phantom, nightmare. chimerical, adj. 1. unreal, imaginary, illusory, delusory; visionary, quixotic, romantic, starry-eyed, in the clouds; ethereal, unsubstantial, airy, vaporous, gossamery, spectral, dreamlike.
2. (all to an extreme degree) fanciful, notional, whimsical, unrealistic, fatuous; wild, fantastic, fabulous, outrageous, extravagant, preposterous, outlandish; gothic, bizarre, grotesque, china, n. 1. porcelain, eggshell porcelain, delft ware, majolica, faience, stoneware, ironstone, basalt-ware, Wedgwood ware, crackleware, gombroon.
2. pottery, crockery, ceramics, earthenware, ware, terracotta, Both Ceram, biscuit, bisque.
3. dishes, tableware, service. chink¹, n. 1. crack, chap, check, fissure, crevice, crevasse, cleft, stria, cranny, groove, sulcus, Archaic. scissure; break, fracture, rupture, split, rift, breach, scission, separation, division; slit, gash, scotch, rent, cut, incision.
2. hole, gap, cavity, opening, orifice, aperture; space, interspace, interval, interstice, narrow; chasm, gorge, ravine, gulch, gully, rut, furrow, ditch, trench. -v. 3. fill up, close up, stop up, plug up; cement, spackle, plaster. chink², n., v. clink, clank, click, clack, rattle; jingle, tinkle, ting, ding, ring, clang, clangor, jangle, chip, v. 1. fragment, crumb, crumble, break up or off, crack off, chop or hack off; chisel, whittle, hew; nick, snick, notch, gash, scratch, mar.
-n. 2. fragment, shard, chunk, snip, snippet; bit, morsel, gobbet, snatch, scrap, crumb; sliver, splinter, shive, shred, shaving, flake; slice, rasher, Brit. Dial. collop; piece, cantle, corner.
3. nick, snick, check, crack, break, fash, scratch, scotch, place, spot; imperfection, fault, flaw, defect, SI. bug.
4. disk, wafer, slug, coin, Obs. plate; token, counter, marker, checker, man.
chipper, adj. Chiefly U.S. Informal, lively, cheerful, animated, vivacious, jaunty. See cheerful (defs. 1, 2). chirp, v. 1. tweet, cheep, peep, chirrup; twitter, trill, warble, whistle; shrill, stridulate, crow.