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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Extremely cold. See Synonyms at cold.
  2. adj. Lacking warmth of feeling.
  3. adj. Stiff and formal in manner: a frigid refusal to a request.
  4. adj. Persistently averse to sexual intercourse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Cold in temperature; wanting heat or warmth; icy; wintry: as, the frigid zone.
  2. Cold in temperament or feeling; wanting warmth of affection or of zeal; chilly in manner; impassive.
  3. Marked by or manifesting mental coldness; coldly formal or precise; lifeless; torpid; chilling; as, frigid devotions or services; frigid politeness or manners.
  4. Wanting generative heat or vigor; impotent.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
  2. adj. Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
  3. adj. colloquial Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature.
  2. adj. Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal
  3. adj. Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. sexually unresponsive
  2. adj. devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
  3. adj. extremely cold

Etymologies

  1. From Latin frīgidus ("cold"), from frīgeō ("I am cold"), from frigus ("cold, coldness"), from Proto-Indo-European *sriges-, *sriHges-. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin frīgidus, cold, from frīgus, the cold. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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