Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin gelidus, from gelū, frost; see gel- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“According to the company, the name comes from "The English word" gelid "[which] is derived from the Latin word" gelidus "(extremely cold, icy).”
“The English word "gelid" is derived from the Latin word "gelidus" (extremely”
“The door shut, lifting dust into the gelid flaming moon.”
“He sprang back clutching the flesh over his gelid heart.”
“The door shut behind him, lifting dust into the gelid flaming moon of that night.”
“His face had been gelid as a glacier throughout the semester, but now, I thought I saw him smile.”
“It was a gelid 12 degrees, hardly weather to view public art, but I can be contrarian.”
The Huffington Post: Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard
“There is, for instance, something perturbingly gelid about the satisfaction with which he describes the jacket he wore to visit his wife on her deathbed ( "punk Harris tweed with a Rhodesian flag on the back and an Umbro label on the front", since you ask).”
The Guardian: Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow
“Ghosts six feet under, the gelid indifference and bland, sneering laughter of mutants with money, dreams sucked from marrow and spit into gutters ...”
“You don't need to see the fin, count the teeth, stare into the gelid, dead eye to know how close you just came to disaster.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gelid’.
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New Words
No definite conception of these words.
reggaeton, fugacious, astray, artillery, quietism, heteronomy, plebeian, remit, hypostasize, discountenance, rictus, wail and 39 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 1073 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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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
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truman486's list
Masterbatory Aids
ensorcelled, scintilla, maudlin, lugubrious, frisson, praxis, copasetic, crotch, corollary, bandy, undulating, anthropomorphic and 65 more...
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I am : cold
Cold adjectives.
cold, frigid, freezing, glacial, gelid, chill, crisp, cool, frosty, nippy, icy, brisk and 13 more...
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sonicy
delineate, ubiquarian, abaculus, ell, gelid, stem-winder, alpenglow, ligature, corpuscle, corroboree, columnar, cuboidal and 7 more...
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Character traits
Falstaffian, drumble, despond, grotesque, élan, anile, feal, smart aleck, phat, blowsy, haver, hoary and 18 more...
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Autumn Anomy
treescape, anomy, autumn, abacus, gable, gelid, frondescence, orbicular, adversaria, arborescent, obfuscate, vulneration and 1 more...
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Flip your lid
gelid, eyelid, annelid, chilidog, holiday, stolid, cichlid, consolidate, pallid, sipunculid, valid, squalid and 71 more...
Louises The kid's half eaten carcase in a gelid blood soup. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 2, 2012
madmouth cold and gel are etymologically related words May 14, 2009
yarb Spätlese cooling in the gelid spring.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984 Jul 4, 2008
chained_bear "'...my collections come from one of the driest parts of the whole terraneous globe. They need very careful attention... Once they are tumbled and tossed unprepared, on the gelid billows, all is lost—their pristine glory is gone for ever.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 232 Mar 16, 2008
brtom Gelid light and air were in the kitchen but out of doors gentle summer morning everywhere.
Joyce, Ulysses, 4 Dec 30, 2006