frigid

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  1. adjective Extremely cold. See Synonyms at cold.
  2. adjective Lacking warmth of feeling.
  3. adjective Stiff and formal in manner: a frigid refusal to a request.
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  • "There's nothing you can say that will change my mind, but you can come inside and waste your breath if you want to." —  The Man From High Mountain
  • When Fendis described this serpent, the warrior vividly recalled the frigid eruption from the white blade of his sword. —  Emperor of Ansalon
  • Reaching in, I felt something hard and cold, frigid, my fingertips tingling and at the same time burning. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • The wind had turned frigid, all of a sudden. —  Chosen Of The Gods
  • They can die. —  The Legacy of Heorot
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin frīgidus, cold, from frīgus, the cold.

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  1. = Spanish frígido = Portuguese Italian frigido, from Latin frigidus, cold, chill, cool, from frigere, be cold; cf. frigus (frīgor-), cold, coldness, coolness, = Greek ῤῖγος (for *#567ρῑγος), cold, ῤιγοῦν, freeze. See frill.
 

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