[ UK /ɡlˈe‍ɪʃə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫeɪʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. relating to or derived from a glacier
    glacial deposit
  3. extremely cold
    polar weather
    a frigid day
    glacial winds
    icy hands
    an arctic climate
    gelid waters of the North Atlantic
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How To Use glacial In A Sentence

  • The Eurasian and Laurentide Ice Sheets were responsible for most of the glacio-eustatic decrease in sea level (about 120 m) during the LGM. The pattern of postglacial isostatic rebound suggests that the ice was thickest over Hudson Bay. Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP
  • The chief natural phenomena that have driven fragmentation are glacial advances, volcanic activity, geologic faulting, tectonic movement, mass land slumping, serpentinization, major sea level rise and climate oscillation. Habitat fragmentation
  • The rise of sea levels with the release of glacial waters at the end of the last ice age flooded the plain between what is now the UK and Europe.
  • Occidentali Noruagiæ Insula, quæ Glacialis dicitur, magno circumfusa Oceano repentur, obsoletæ admodum habitationis tellus, A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
  • Reference is made to the dating presence of shells and glacial deposits, and the burial chronology and body size reduction evidence.
  • The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial: ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • No coseismic offset in the position of the glacier surface is observed; instead, modest tsunamis associated with the glacial earthquakes implicate glacier calving in the seismogenic process. RealClimate
  • The Cree syllabics on the glacial till granite boulder base say: ‘I am the big bear.’
  • We ended the last chapter with the glacial conditions that prevailed eighteen thousand years ago. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
  • Bogs and glacial recessional lake deposits frequently contain compressible deposits of peat and organic-rich silt.
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