Chilled means cooled down ready to drink or serve. Serve chilled, chilled white wine, chilled to four degrees.
In food safety the chilled range is roughly nought to five degrees, which is what a fridge should hold, and chilled foods are a whole retail category distinct from frozen. Serve chilled is standard on labels. In informal use, chilled means relaxed — he is very chilled about it — which came from chill out and is now the commoner sense in speech. Note chilled out; and chilling, which means frightening.
1adjectivechilledCooled down ready to drink or serve.
“Serve the white wine chilled, straight from the fridge.”
Patternserve chilled · a chilled + noun (drink, glass, soup) · well chilled · chill
2adjectiverelaxedRelaxed, in informal use.
“Don't worry about the delay; he's pretty chilled about it.”
chilled is a state of coolness.
CHILLed → kept cold, not frozen
It is chill + ed: drinks left in the fridge until they are cold, but not frozen.
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Chill plus -ed. Chill is from Old English ciele, cold, related to cool and cold, and all three come from one Germanic root.
Middle English
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English, today
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From Middle English chilled, chylled, equivalent to chill + -ed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA