[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gelid \gel"id\ je^l"i^d, a. l. gelidus, fr. gelu frost,
   cold. see cold, and cf. congeal, gelatin, jelly.
   cold; very cold; frozen. "gelid founts." --thompson.
   1913 webster
see also:
cold congeal gelatin jelly 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gelid
     adj : extremely cold; "an arctic climate";  "a frigid day"; "gelid
           waters of the north atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy
           hands"; "polar weather" syn: arctic, frigid, glacial,
            icy, polar
see also:
arctic frigid glacial icy polar 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

65 moby thesaurus words for "gelid":
   siberian, algid, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold,
   blast-frozen, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilly, cold,
   cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble,
   congealed, cool, crisp, cutting, freezing, freezing cold, frigid,
   frostbitten, frostnipped, frosty, frozen, frozen solid, glacial,
   hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice, ice-cold, ice-encrusted,
   icelike, icy, icy-cold, inclement, keen, nipping, nippy, numbing,
   penetrating, piercing, pinching, quick-frozen, raw, rigorous,
   severe, sharp, sharp-frozen, sleety, slushy, snappy, stone-cold,
   subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

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