cold read
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An act of cold reading.
Example Sentences
- "A few years ago Mort had barely been able to crawl out of his bottle long enough to cold-read credulous idiots into believing he could speak to their dead loved ones."
- "Select the person you will "cold read" ahead of time if possible. The more time you have to learn about your subject, the better."
- "Fortune-tellers were derided as swindlers, their so-called services little better than a form of larceny. Incredulous journalists accused clairvoyants of faking their skills by cold-reading customers or surreptitiously monitoring local gossip that would help impress clients"
- "In spiritualism research, feedback is often used — this can be interpreted as giving the medium the chance to 'cold read'. However, feedback may be necessary […]"
- "At the audition you will be required to cold read a script."
- "This is an example of what magicians (and unfortunately phony psychics) call a "cold read"."