what cant i say its absolutely cold

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i can say "absolutely freezing"but i cant say "absolutely cold" why

[Kitosdad]

But you can say, "It's absolutely freezing cold."
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yeh i worked that out i just gotta work out if cold is different from freezing, does cold fit into the same category as hot, there has to be a grammatical reason why one cannot say absolutely cold, i just got to work it out

[Kitosdad]

We can't say 'absolutely cold', because cold is relative and subjective. That is, there's no definite value that makes something cold, and the range of 'cold' covers a wide range of degrees.

However, 'freezing' is an absolute, or specific, value, i.e. 0 degrees Celsius/32 degrees Fahrenheit.
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