So my brother and I were standing out in the cold.

**Brother**: "Man, it's cold."  

**Me**: "Yeah, it's freezing."  

**Brother**: "Man, it's more than freezing!"  

**Me**: *Slightly confused, but perhaps thinking that he might have intended to express that it is colder than freezing, I ask* "don't you 'mean less than freezing?'"  

**Brother**: "Nah, man. It's too cold to be less than freezing!"  

**Me**: *Yep, he definitely meant that it is much colder.* "Well, if it's colder than freezing, the temperature is lower than zero, therefore 'less than freezing.'"  

**Brother**: "Nah, man! Forget numbers! It's about how you *feel*. And I feel *insanely* cold. The word "*insanely*" is *more* than the word "*just*", therefore 'more than freezing,' and not 'just freezing' or 'less than freezing'"

Then, the conversation changes topic.

Now I'm left wondering which expression is the most accurate; is it "more than freezing", or "less than freezing"?

For the record, my brother and I were standing out in the *West Coast* cold, where temperatures don't often dip below zero degrees celsius. At that time, the temperature was five degrees celsius, too warm to be *actually* freezing. So him even uttering the word "freezing" is obviously a hyperbole. Hence, I'm not surprised why---to his mind---numbers didn't factor in, but instead just the "feeling" of coldness.

So which one of the two is correct?