Antonyms for common coldcom·mon cold

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. common coldnoun

   Synonyms:
   viral, nasopharyngitis, coryza, acute

2. common coldnoun

   A very common, mild viral infection of the nose and throat, whose symptoms include sneezing, sniffling, a running or blocked nose, a sore throat, coughing and a headache.

   Synonyms:
   coryza, viral, acute, nasopharyngitis

Matched Categories

1. • Communicable Disease
   • Respiratory Disease

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cold, common coldnoun

   a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)

   "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"

   Synonyms:
   low temperature, coldness, frigidness, frigidity, cold

How to use common cold in a sentence?

1. Neal Halsey:

   You don't want to try to protect your child against every common cold because you can't.

2. James Gray:

   You can't really shoot there, there are 62 uncontacted tribes, and they will have your head. And even if they wouldn't have your head, if you had a common cold, for example, and you shook their hand and gave them it, they would die. They have no resistance to a lot of the diseases we have.

3. Royal Caribbean spokesman Owen Torres:

   We encouraged our guests and crew to wash their hands often, which health experts recommend as the best defense against stomach viruses, which each year affect as many as 300 million people worldwide—only the common cold is more prevalent.

4. Georges Benjamin:

   We’re focusing on those three, but there are others out there – the common cold and others.

5. Samuel Scarpino:

   I was joking that you could offer to let the tourists cut the long lobster roll lines in Maine in the summer if they got vaccinated, i think if we take that kind of attitude and get enough vaccines to people, we actually could get to the right level to make this severe disease that has been completely debilitating from a societal and economic perspective, to something that is not eradicated, but that is something more akin to the common cold, which becomes more manageable.

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