Gelid \Gel"id\ (j[e^]l"[i^]d), a. [L. gelidus, fr. gelu frost,
cold. See Cold, and cf. Congeal, Gelatin, Jelly.]
Cold; very cold; frozen. "Gelid founts." --Thompson.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gelid
adj : extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid
waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy
hands"; "polar weather" [syn: arctic, frigid, glacial,
icy, polar]
WordNet (r) 2.0
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "gelid":
Siberian, algid, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold,
blast-frozen, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilly, cold,
cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble,
congealed, cool, crisp, cutting, freezing, freezing cold, frigid,
frostbitten, frostnipped, frosty, frozen, frozen solid, glacial,
hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice, ice-cold, ice-encrusted,
icelike, icy, icy-cold, inclement, keen, nipping, nippy, numbing,
penetrating, piercing, pinching, quick-frozen, raw, rigorous,
severe, sharp, sharp-frozen, sleety, slushy, snappy, stone-cold,
subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
arctic, frigid, glacial, icy, polar
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