Synonyms for common cold
com·mon cold

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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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

Matched Categories

1. • Communicable Disease
   • Respiratory Disease

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1. common cold

   Read the full text of the Common Cold poem by Ogden Nash on the Poetry.com website.

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1. 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.

2. Zack Davies:

   My biggest concern is he catches something and then brings it back to my wife, i feel our children are going to be fine. They'll bounce back. But somebody with lupus -- it's a tougher fight for her. A common cold for me and you, we're down maybe two days. Something like that for her, we're looking at weeks. And it's scary.

3. Peter Hotez:

   So many of these neglected tropical diseases are not acute infections like ... the flu or common cold, many are chronic, debilitating conditions that mimic non-communicable diseases ... If somebody has epilepsy, they don't think of cysticercosis ... If a child tests poorly in school, the pediatrician or nurse practitioner won't think of toxocariasis.

4. Ogden Nash:

   A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

5. Neal Halsey:

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