cold-shoulder

1. 1.

   pay no attention to, disrespect

   “She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance”

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Questions about cold-shoulder

What does cold-shoulder mean?

cold-shoulder means "pay no attention to, disrespect".

How many syllables are in cold-shoulder?

cold-shoulder has 3 syllables: cold--shoul-der. The stress falls on "cold-".

What is another word for cold-shoulder?

Close synonyms include slight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cold-shoulder a common word?

cold-shoulder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.