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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Containing or covered with ice: an icy road.
  2. adj. Bitterly cold; freezing: an icy day. See Synonyms at cold.
  3. adj. Resembling ice: icy fingers.
  4. adj. Chilling in manner: an icy stare; icy detachment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to, composed of, produced by, resembling, or abounding with ice: as, an icy surface; icy coldness; the icy regions of the north.
  2. Figuratively, characterized by coldness or coolness, as of manner, influence, etc.; frigid; chilling; freezing; indifferent.
  3. Synonyms Frosty, cold-hearted, stoṅy.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.
  2. adj. Covered with ice, wholly or partially.
  3. adj. Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.
  2. adj. Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
  2. adj. covered with or containing or consisting of ice
  3. adj. shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice
  4. adj. extremely cold

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. cold
  1. frosty
  1. chilling
  1. frigid
  1. distant
  1. indifferent
  1. unemotional

equivalents (4)

Other words for ‘icy’

  1. cold
  1. frozen
  1. glazed
  1. shiny

same context (10)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. stony
  2. chilly
  1. fiery
  2. cold
  1. frigid
  2. silvery
  1. muddy
  2. jagged
  1. snowy
  2. watery

rhymes (3)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. dicey
  1. pricey
  1. spicy

reverse dictionary (33)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. icy
  2. glacious
  3. key-cold
  4. icily
  5. iciness
  6. ice-spur
  1. sarsar
  2. glacial
  3. gelid
  4. glary
  5. glissade
  6. freeze
  1. Kuiper belt
  2. sleet
  3. beware
  4. fishtail
  5. right
  6. accident
  1. bite
  2. clunk
  3. concur
  4. dream
  5. rub
  6. whip
  1. mind
  2. frost
  3. hunker
  4. plunge
  5. ice
  6. coast
  1. frigid
  2. glare
  3. y

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Words tagged ‘icy’

  1. icely

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  • oroboros Sounds like the letters I C. Oct 28, 2009

  • yarb 'That's very tiny,'
    she says (probes his kimono);
    icy December,
    the Rose shut, she ugly - what's
    expected, the HINDENBURG?

    - Peter Reading, Tanka, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981

    Note: 'tiny' in the original is in small type. Jun 29, 2008

  • chained_bear Yes, exactly! Which makes me wonder why it wasn't already on my three-letter words list...

    I wonder if WeirdNet just goes crazy looking for the least-used definition. I would think "icy" is most commonly used as "covered with ice." Maybe not. Nov 24, 2007

  • yarb One of the most expressive words around, and so sharp and surprising in its smallness. Nov 24, 2007

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