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US
/ˈfɹɪdʒəd/
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[ UK /fɹˈɪdʒɪd/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈɪdʒɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
a glacial handshake
a frigid greeting
wintry smile
got a frosty reception
a frozen look on their faces
icy stare -
sexually unresponsive
a frigid woman
was cold to his advances -
extremely cold
polar weather
a frigid day
glacial winds
icy hands
an arctic climate
gelid waters of the North Atlantic
How To Use frigid In A Sentence
- Logically the frigid temperatures and winds could have accounted for a good deal of this decrease.
- Pondus limi, inde aworden is flæsc pund fyres of thon read is blod and hat factus est caro; pondus ignis, inde rubeus est sanguis et calidus; pund saltes of thon sindon salto tehero pund deawes of thon pondus salis, inde sunt salsae lacrimae; pondus roris, unde aworden is swat pund blostmes of thon is fagung egena factus est sudor; pondus floris, inde est uarietas oculorum; pund wolcnes of thon is unstydfullnisse _vel_ unstatholfæstnisse pondus nubis, inde est instabilitas thohta mentium; pund windes of thon is oroth cald pund gefe of thon is pondus uenti, inde est anhela frigida: pondus gratiae, id est thoht monnes sensus hominis. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
- Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work. Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance
- It cures the sexually frigid and the easily upset; it reawakens interest in sex for those suffering from physical or psychological problems.
- Ancient sources alluded to this element of frigidity by categorising the sign as ‘slightly barren’ in matters of fertility, and drawing pre-pubescent youth or sexless beings into its symbolic expression.
- a frigid day
- As is also the case with the opus sectile floor of the Roman Baths, also the marble wall veneer from this building originates mostly from Dokimeion, while cipollino is the second most frequent stone type used for marble wall veneer in the Frigidarium II, the Apodyterium and the room to the south of the Apodyterium. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Stone
- Formerly women smitten with incubacy had frigid flesh even in the month of August. Là-bas
- I began to reflect on the bitterly frigid winter days of my youth, when I would sit outside in the backyard of the old house.
- What was more, I was determined to defy the frigidity of my race, that ancient shameful legacy of inhibition.