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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

Extremely cold or icy in temperature or feeling.

e.g. The gelid wind blowing from the Arctic made the streets uninhabitable.

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Similar Words

Algid

Antiseptic

Arctic

Bitter

Bloodless

Bone-chilling

Brittle

Chill

Chilly

Clammy

Clinical

Cold

Cold-blooded

Cold-eyed

Coldhearted

Cool

Cryogenic

Freezing

Frigid

Frosty

Frozen

Glacial

Hard-eyed

Ice-cold

Icy

Impersonal

Nipping

Nippy

Numbing

Polar

Shivery

Snappy

Subfreezing

Subzero

Ultracold

Uncordial

Unfriendly

Unsympathetic

Winterly

Wintry

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Opposite Words

Canicular

Compassionate

Demonstrative

Eager

Emotional

Enthusiastic

Equatorial

Expressive

Feverish

Flushed

Heated

Kind

Kindhearted

Lukewarm

Muggy

Overheated

Passionate

Snug

Steamy

Summery

Tepid

Toasty

Tropical

Warm

Warmed-over

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Related Words

Aloof

Antisocial

Apathetic

Bloodless

Bracing

Brisk

Coldhearted

Crisp

Cryogenic

Cutting

Detached

Dispassionate

Frosted

Frozen

Hard-hearted

Heartless

Iced

Impersonal

Indifferent

Invigorating

Keen

Penetrating

Piercing

Pitiless

Reserved

Rigorous

Sharp

Soulless

Standoffish

Subfreezing

Subzero

Ultracold

Uncaring

Undemonstrative

Unemotional

Unenthusiastic

Unfeeling

Unheated

Uninterested

Unresponsive

Unsociable

Unsocial

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