Found 3 hits - Term: icy, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
icy \i"cy\, a. compar. icier; superl. iciest. as.
imacsig. see ice.
1. pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold;
frosty. "icy chains." --shak. "icy region." --boyle. "icy
seas." --pope.
1913 webster
2. characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.;
chilling; frigid; cold.
1913 webster
icy was the deportment with which philip received
these demonstrations of affection. --motley.
1913 webster
see also:
icier iciest ice
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
icy
adj 1: 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" syn:
frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, wintry
2: extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid
waters of the north atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy
hands"; "polar weather" syn: arctic, frigid, gelid,
glacial, polar
3: covered with or containing or consisting of ice; "icy
northern waters"
4: shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice; "roads and
trees glazed with an icy film"
also: iciest, icier
see also:
frigid frosty frozen glacial wintry arctic
gelid polar iciest icier
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
157 moby thesaurus words for "icy":
olympian, siberian, 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, 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, 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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