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Icy

adjective

(compar. icier; superl. iciest)

Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain. Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, wintry. "Got a frosty reception" , "A frozen look on their faces" , "A glacial handshake" , "Icy stare" , "Wintry smile"

Extremely cold. Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, polar. "A frigid day" , "Gelid waters of the North Atlantic" , "Glacial winds" , "Icy hands" , "Polar weather"

Covered with or containing or consisting of ice.

Shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice.

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"Icy" Quotes from Famous Books

... looked at one another without speaking. They sank down in collapse, feeling an icy coldness in their loins, and an overwhelming ...

— Salammbo • Gustave Flaubert

... industrious race, they were not long content to live in the rugged caverns as nature made them, but with wonderful labour built walls, floors, and roofs, to make their homes more comfortable, and to keep out the icy winds which howled up the canyons. The marvel is how they reached their homes, which are often at great heights; and one shudders to think of how many stray babies, clambering children, and nervous folk of all ages, must have stumbled and fallen over the rocky platforms ...

— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various

... in a rotten state now owing to the heavy rain and the snow. It's like walking on a sponge about eighteen inches deep. Squelch, squelch you go and not infrequently get stuck; parts are knee deep in water, and icy cold water trickling into your boots is the reverse of pleasant or warm. Then the rain trickles through the dug-out roof—that caps it. I really don't think there can be anything more irritating than the drip, drip in the region of the head. ...

— One Young Man • Sir John Ernest Hodder-Williams

... Preacher nodded and busied himself with loosening the sodden neckcloth, the while I unclasped the icy fingers to relieve ...

— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol

... conversation it may be gathered that between our Fortunate Youth and the Princess some genial sun had melted the icy barriers of formality. He had known her for eighteen months, ever since she had bought Chetwood Park and settled down as the great personage of the countryside. He had met her many times, both in London and in Morebury; he had dined in state at ...

— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke

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