Frigid \Frig"id\, a. [L. frigidus, fr. frigere to be cold; prob.
akin to Gr. ? to shudder, or perh. to ? cold. Cf. Frill.]
1. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a
frigid climate.
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2. Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.;
unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated;
stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid
style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or
service.
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3. Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the
generative power; impotent. --Johnson.
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Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between
either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23? 28? from
the pole. See the Note under Arctic.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
frigid
adj 1: sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid
woman" [syn: cold]
2: extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid
waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy
hands"; "polar weather" [syn: arctic, gelid, glacial,
icy, polar]
3: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of
unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a
frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a
glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn: frosty,
frozen, glacial, icy, wintry]
WordNet (r) 2.0
164 Moby Thesaurus words for "frigid":
Olympian, Siberian, affectless, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic,
asexual, austere, autistic, backward, bashful, below zero, biting,
bitter, bitterly cold, blank, bleak, blunt, boreal, brisk, brumal,
callous, castrated, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cold,
cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble,
cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, crisp, cutting,
detached, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dull,
emasculated, emotionally dead, emotionless, eunuchized, exclusive,
expressionless, forbidding, freezing, freezing cold, frosted,
frosty, frozen, frustrated, gelid, glacial, guarded, haughty,
heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-cold,
ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive,
impersonal, impervious, impotent, inaccessible, inclement,
indifferent, inexcitable, inhibited, insusceptible, introverted,
keen, modest, neuter, neutral, nipping, nippy, nonemotional,
numbing, obdurate, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch,
passionless, passive, penetrating, piercing, pinching, polar, prim,
raw, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent,
retiring, rigid, rigorous, seclusive, self-absorbed, severe,
sexless, sharp, shrinking, sleety, slushy, snappy, soulless,
spiritless, standoff, standoffish, steely, stiff, stone-cold,
stony, strait-laced, subdued, subzero, supercooled, suppressed,
thick-skinned, unaffable, unaffectionate, unapproachable,
uncongenial, undemonstrative, undersexed, unemotional, unexpansive,
unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unimpassioned, unimpressionable,
unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsexed,
unsexual, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, winterbound,
winterlike, wintery, wintry, withdrawn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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