Frigid - English meaning

adjective

Relating to the regions around the north pole.

Usage examples:

An arctic explorer

noun

The regions around the north pole.

noun

The very cold area around the north pole

Usage examples:

Polar bears live in the arctic.

adjective

Relating to the baltic sea or the region surrounding it.

Usage examples:

It supports the restoration of a levy on grain imports from the black sea and baltic regions and pl…

noun

The baltic sea or the baltic states.

adjective

Belonging to or relating to the baltic sea or the countries surrounding it

Usage examples:

It's baltic outside.

adjective

Having a sharp, pungent taste or smell; not sweet.

Usage examples:

Raw berries have an intensely bitter flavour

noun

Beer that is strongly flavoured with hops and has a bitter taste, brewed by top fermentation.

Usage examples:

A pint of bitter

adjective

Having a slightly stinging, strong taste, not salty or sweet

Usage examples:

The coffee was bitter., losing the election was a bitter disappointment., she has no bitterness abo…

adjective

(of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.

Usage examples:

A bleak and barren moor

noun

A small silvery shoaling fish of the carp family, found in eurasian rivers.

Usage examples:

The flies for pike were naturally bigger than the bleaks, so they left me alone and i got some pike.

adjective

If a place is bleak, it is empty, and not welcoming or attractive

Usage examples:

The house stands on a bleak, windswept hilltop.

adjective

Of the north or northern regions.

Usage examples:

The alleged bureaucratic ubiquity of the teutonic world is not really being treated as conditional …

adjective

Relating to the region of the earth just south of the arctic, especially its plants and animals

Usage examples:

Canada's boreal forest

noun

An unpleasant feeling of coldness in the atmosphere, one's surroundings, or the body.

Usage examples:

There was a chill in the air

verb

Make (someone) cold.

Usage examples:

They were chilled by a sudden wind

adjective

Chilly.

Usage examples:

The chill grey dawn

adjective

Uncomfortably or unpleasantly cold.

Usage examples:

A chilly february evening

adjective

Cold but not freezing

Usage examples:

A chilly morning, fig. their relationship was decidedly chilly (= unfriendly) after the argument.

adjective

(of weather, conditions in a room, or parts of the body) cold

Usage examples:

The bathroom gets chilly in the winter., i felt a bit chilly so i put on a jacket., a chilly octobe…

adjective

Of or at a low or relatively low temperature, especially when compared with the human body.

Usage examples:

A freezing cold day

noun

A low temperature; cold weather; a cold environment.

Usage examples:

My teeth chattered with the cold

adverb

Completely; entirely.

Usage examples:

We stopped cold behind a turn in the staircase

idiom

Having a body temperature that is not internally regulated

adjective

Denoting animals whose body temperature varies with that of the environment (e.g. fish); poikilothermic.

Usage examples:

Crocodiles are cold-blooded creatures, and they keep their temperature constant by basking in the s…

adjective

Without emotion or pity; deliberately cruel or callous.

Usage examples:

A cold-blooded murder

adjective

Having or showing a lack of care for others

Usage examples:

She said that the city’s decision to close the homeless shelter was cold-hearted.

adjective

Below 0°c.

Usage examples:

Strong winds and freezing temperatures

noun

The freezing point of water (0°c).

Usage examples:

The temperature was well above freezing

verb

(with reference to a liquid) turn or be turned into ice or another solid as a result of extreme cold.

Usage examples:

In the winter the milk froze

adjective

(of the weather) very cold, with frost forming on surfaces.

Usage examples:

A cold and frosty morning

adjective

Unfriendly or not welcoming

Usage examples:

A frosty manner, we each had a root beer served in a frosty glass with a big handle.

adjective

Very cold, with a thin layer of white ice covering everything

Usage examples:

The frosty air stung my cheeks., it was a cold and frosty morning.

adjective

Past participle of freeze.

verb

(with reference to a liquid) turn or be turned into ice or another solid as a result of extreme cold.

Usage examples:

In the winter the milk froze

Past participle of freeze

adjective

Relating to or denoting the presence or agency of ice, especially in the form of glaciers.

Usage examples:

Thick glacial deposits

noun

A glacial period.

Usage examples:

This then provides the opportunity for milankovich cycles to become the pacemaker of the ice ages, …

adjective

Made or left by a glacier

Usage examples:

Glacial deposits, glacial temperatures, a glacial period, she gave me a glacial stare., the case is…

adjective

Of, characteristic of, or occurring in winter.

Usage examples:

Hibernal eczema

verb

Go quickly.

Usage examples:

I hied down to new orleans

verb

To go quickly or to hurry

Usage examples:

Hie me to i must hie me to the sales before all the bargains are gone.

noun

An inhabitant of the extreme north.

Usage examples:

We restricted our density calculations to birds on the water, with the exception of glaucous gulls …

adjective

Relating to the extreme north.

Usage examples:

Its grid plan, zoned districts and splendid nevsky prospect created a strange kind of hyperborean v…

adjective

Extremely cold

Usage examples:

The water off the coast here is always ice-cold.

adjective

Covered with or consisting of ice.

Usage examples:

There were icy patches on the roads

adjective

Able to move quickly; nimble.

Usage examples:

A very nippy scrum half

noun

A waitress in any of the restaurants of j. lyons & co. ltd in london from about 1920 to 1950.

Usage examples:

His waitresses were always impeccably turned out, originally nicknamed gladys but rechristened nipp…

adjective

Cold

Usage examples:

It’s a bit nippy outside.

adjective

Chilly.

Usage examples:

It was parky on bradfield moors last week

noun

Variant spelling of parkie.

noun

A park-keeper.

adjective

Lacking strong emotion; unemotional.

Usage examples:

The voice is passionless, monotone

adjective

Relating to the north or south pole.

Usage examples:

The polar regions

noun

The straight line joining the two points at which tangents from a fixed point touch a conic section.

Usage examples:

Sturm's theoretical work in mathematical physics involved the study of caustic curves, and poles an…

adjective

Of or near the area around the most northern or most southern points of the earth

Usage examples:

The polar ice cap, a polar expedition, fig. the play’s main characters are polar opposites (= they …

adjective

Relating to siberia or its people.

Usage examples:

The siberian plains near the arctic circle

noun

A native or inhabitant of siberia.

Usage examples:

A soviet-era war memorial to siberians

adjective

Sub-zero temperatures are temperatures below zero degrees.

adjective

Feeling, showing, or having no fondness or tenderness.

Usage examples:

His background was deeply unaffectionate

adjective

Not showing feelings of liking or loving someone

Usage examples:

My mother was a harsh and unaffectionate woman., she was raised by a distant, unaffectionate father…

adjective

Not displaying sympathy or concern for others.

Usage examples:

An uncaring father

adjective

Not worrying about other people's troubles or doing anything to help them

Usage examples:

The charity criticized the city for its "callous, uncaring attitude" to the homeless.

adjective

(of a person) not tending to express feelings, especially of affection, openly.

Usage examples:

The english are an undemonstrative lot

adjective

Not having or showing strong feelings.

Usage examples:

A flat, unemotional voice

adjective

Not having or expressing strong feelings, often when this is surprising or a bad thing

Usage examples:

Investigators said the couple seemed oddly unemotional about the disappearance., they described him…

adjective

Unsympathetic, harsh, or callous.

Usage examples:

My mother is a cold, unfeeling woman

adjective

Not feeling sympathy for other people’s suffering

Usage examples:

An unfeeling man

adjective

Not loving.

Usage examples:

An unloving father

adjective

Not responsive.

Usage examples:

These symptoms may be unresponsive to conventional treatment

adjective

Not reacting or answering, or not reacting or answering satisfactorily

Usage examples:

The company has been unresponsive to her efforts to discuss a settlement.

adjective

Characteristic of winter, especially in feeling or looking very cold and bleak.

Usage examples:

A wintry landscape

adjective

Typical of winter’s cold, windy, and snowy weather

Usage examples:

You’ll definitely need snow tires on your car for the wintry weather around here.