frigid

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Living in the comfort of this country and our times, it's hard for many of us, who have been fortunate, bli ayin hara, to be spared serious illness and other calamity in our own lives, to imagine what it means to live in desperate circumstances not merely for 20 frightful minutes over the New York skyline, but day after day in places like the Nazi lager or the frigid wastelands of Siberia.

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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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  • She returned to her bed and conjured the Great Stone Dancing in the sky above the frigid wastes of the Barren Lands, the Beaconfolk responded amiably to the appeals of the sorceress. —  Julian, May - Boreal Moon 01 - Conqueror's Moon
  • The night was rapidly turning frigid, and the few people who hurried past were bent on their destinations. —  Muller, Marcia - [20] - While Other People Sleep
  • A few red plants sprouted in this frigid waste, but they were stunted things. —  F ;SF - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996
  • It is ironic that Louis XV ;s principal mistress when he was a young man ; Madame de Pompadour ; was frigid, and his mistress when he was old ; Madame du Barry ; was one of the most talented prostitutes of her day. —  Sex with Kings Eleanor Herman
  • For one thing she wasn't in any way frigid, as Waltham had implied That idiot must have been pretty terrible in bed. —  Harlequin Presents 2151 - The Blackmailed Bridegroom by Miranda Lee
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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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