Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Cold; chilly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Cold.
Wiktionary
- adj. medicine cold, chilly; used of low body temperature especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Cold; chilly.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. chilly.
Etymologies
- Latin algidus, from algēre, to be cold. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Dragonspawn flung out its algid arms, and purple light jagged from its fingertips.”
“Upon this variety of the Limnophysalis hyalina depends the vomiting of blue matters observed by Dr. John Sullivan, at Havana, in patients affected with pernicious intermittent fever (algid and comatose form).”
“-- I could not doubt -- an actual aroma like peach-blossom was in the algid air about me!”
“That there is such an elevation has been decided by the experiments of De Haen, who found, that even in the algid states of fever, there was, in the internal parts, a manifest increase of temperature, in some cases to the extent of 2°, 3° and even 4°, and that the slightest febrile conditions are attended with an increase of heat, which is likewise in some instances the only observable phenomenon whatever.”
“For this purpose it has even been employed in the algid period of incurable cholera morbus.”
“Things intend a lowercase fantastic since the trainers hit to modify clothes to care with the algid and they conceive that the connatural fleshly laws no individual apply.”
“Bread is ofttimes a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, youngster butter, and even algid cuts.”
“Apply sterile solution to friend's forearm and vanish murder from furnishings with algid water and soap.”
“Apply algid wedge to disrespect and analyse records for date of last tetanus booster.”
“We start soured thinking we have a algid or strep throat, then we get the bounteous godsend lowered on us.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘algid’.
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 238 more...
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Especially
Being a list of words which have "especially" in their definitions.
wringing-machine, especially, device, field, scrip, hit, catch, take, buck, flip, effluvium, proselyte and 107 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abasia, abask, abb, abba, abbatial, abra and 1214 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 259 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Baron Luke's Collection
An assortment of words, which, when used, should inject some vibrancy into your day, hopefully expunging any ennui!
expunge, cogitate, elucidate, post-haste, rebarbative, recalcitrant, smite, absquatulate, forlorn, thole, nefarious, insubordination and 124 more...
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Miscellany, pt. a
afterdamp, abluent, acanthoid, aquiline, acaulescent, aesthetic evil, armillary, armozeen, astucity, athletary, aberrant, abeyant and 118 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for algid.
jmjarmstrong JM and the Algid 'Armonisers make very cool sounds indeed. May 3, 2010
knitandpurl "Perhaps this new Viennese science would explain my shirking of a higher education as a revenge against my hypereducated parents, whom by this stage in my life I presumably would have or should have detested, and the proponents of this science would be in some part correct, for detest them I did, but not for their negligence of me when a child or for their benign and distinctly algid treatment of me during my adolescence, but for reasons I shall not enter into here, and as for education and learning, why, I revered these, in spite of their being the trademarks, so to speak of my parents' whole being, so I would not likely have denied myself the education open to me merely to do these parents spiritual injury."
-Tintin in the New World by Frederic Tuten, p 151 Jul 10, 2008