ADJECTIVE
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extremely cold
polar weather
a frigid day
glacial winds
icy hands
an arctic climate
gelid waters of the North Atlantic
How To Use gelid In A Sentence
- Christmas nears with a vengeance: its jingling bell like a tinkling lily in gelid fluff overhangs the premises where they sell alcoholic beverages and stuff.
- gelid waters of the North Atlantic
- She leapt to another, higher rock and sat on its rim, dangling her toes in the gelid stream.
- The English word "gelid" is derived from the Latin word "gelidus" (extremely OCTools
- About 400 miles to the southeast lies the coldest inhabited place on the planet  -- the former Stalinist gulag and mining settlement of Oymyakon, where - 95. 8° is the official record; under pressure steel shatters like fine French crystal in such gelidity. This Side of Ultima Thule
- The four vertical tubes look irresistibly floral after the gelid Tatlin monuments and are dedicated to a master at the other end of the modernist pantheon, Henri Matisse.
- Eventually boots and socks had to be removed and ankles submitted to the gelid waters. Times, Sunday Times
- In two rows, we soldiers wait in the gelid night, parked in what appears to be a square designated for maneuvers.
- Eventually boots and socks had to be removed and ankles submitted to the gelid waters. Times, Sunday Times
- This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to her work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues.