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The forms 'more chilly', 'most chilly', 'more chilliest', and 'most chilliest' are not used because they sound awkward. Instead, chillier and chilliest are the correct and preferred forms to use. Does this expression have an irregular comparative/superlative form?
CHILLY definition: 1. (of weather, conditions in a room, or parts of the body) cold: 2. unfriendly: 3. (of weather…. Learn more.
In the event, however, my reception was even chillier than I had expected. He would be chillier than an accountant's ledger, crueler than a general on the night of a coup d'état. Sonia was getting chillier and chillier and knew that she needed a shelter.
'Most' and 'more' are generally not used with chilly, chillier, and chilliest. They’re considered regular comparatives and superlatives. The forms 'more chilly' and 'most chilly' are not used because they sound awkward. Instead, chillier and chilliest are the correct and preferred forms to use.
As adjectives the difference between chillier and chiller is that chillier is comparative of chilly while chiller is comparative of chill. As a noun chiller is something that chills, especially a machine that produces cold air, either for air conditioning, to prepare chilled foods etc.
Definition of 'chilly' chilly. (tʃɪli ) Word forms: chillier , chilliest. 1. adjective. Something that is chilly is unpleasantly cold. It was a chilly afternoon. The rooms had grown chilly. cold. Synonyms: cool, fresh, sharp, crisp More Synonyms of chilly. 2. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] If you feel chilly, you feel rather cold.
1. : noticeably cold : chilling. a chilly day. 2. : unpleasantly affected by cold. chilly spectators. 3. : lacking warmth of feeling : unfriendly. a chilly reception. 4. : tending to arouse fear or apprehension. chilly suspicions. chillily. ˈchi-lə-lē. adverb. chilliness. ˈchi-lē-nəs. noun. Synonyms. bitter. bleak. chilling. nipping. nippy. raw.
