stone-cold

1. 1.

   completely cold

   “by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold”

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Questions about stone-cold

What does stone-cold mean?

stone-cold means "completely cold".

How many syllables are in stone-cold?

stone-cold has 3 syllables and divides as sto-ne--cold under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is stone-cold a common word?

stone-cold is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.