Meaning of ICY
Pronunciation: | | 'Isee
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- [adj] covered with or containing or consisting of ice; "icy northern waters"
- [adj] shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice; "roads and trees glazed with an icy film"
- [adj] extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get inside; I'm freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather"
- [adj] 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"
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| Synonyms: | | arctic, cold, freezing, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, glazed, polar, shiny, wintry |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \I"cy\, a. [Compar. {Icier}; superl. {Iciest}.] [AS.
[=i]sig. See {Ice}.]
1. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold;
frosty. ``Icy chains.'' --Shak. ``Icy region.'' --Boyle.
``Icy seas.'' --Pope.
2. Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.;
chilling; frigid; cold.
Icy was the deportment with which Philip received
these demonstrations of affection. --Motley.
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| Related Terms: | | affectless, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, autistic, backward, bashful, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blank, blast-frozen, bleak, blunt, boreal, brisk, brumal, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cold-blooded, coldhearted, congealed, constrained, cool, crisp, cutting, detached, disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frostbitten, frosted, frostnipped, frosty, frozen, frozen solid, gelid, glacial, guarded, heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy-cold, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, inclement, incompatible, indifferent, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical, insusceptible, introverted, keen, modest, nipping, nippy, nonemotional, numbing, objective, obtuse, offish, Olympian, out of touch, passionless, penetrating, piercing, pinching, quick-frozen, raw, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, rigorous, seclusive, self-absorbed, severe, sharp, sharp-frozen, shivery, shrinking, Siberian, sleety, slushy, snappy, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, stone-cold, strained, subdued, subzero, supercooled, suppressed, tense, unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable, uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withdrawn |
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