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adjective

Frigid adj.

Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.

Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.

Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.

Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. See the Note under Arctic.

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Etymology of 'Frigid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frigid" Quotes from Famous Books

... red and violet light-beams they spread over the city in the never-to-be-forgotten Massacre of New York! It was the beginning of the vengeance Tugh had threatened! Nothing could stop the monstrous mechanical men. For three days and nights New York City was in chaos. The red beams were frigid. They brought a mid-summer snowstorm! Then the violet beams turned the weather suddenly hot. A crazy wild storm swept the wrecked city. Torrential hot rain poured down. Then, one dawn, the beams vanished; the Robots retreated into the house on Patton ...

— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... frigid, though, on the other hand, they never, or hardly ever, show any active signs of disapproval. Somewhat false impressions are produced upon critics nearer to the footlights than the back seats. One of them the other day stated "the fall of the curtain was greeted with ...

— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

... behind the organ, over the growing staleness of life in a sailors' mission. And also I was being pestered by a tall, frigid old maid in purples and blacks, who had fixed her eye on me as a ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... the call and was suddenly embraced by her mother with deep tenderness. This in front of the doctor! Still more curious was the fact that Sissie, of late her mother's frigid critic, came forward and responded to the embrace almost effusively. The spectacle was really touching. It touched Mr. Prohack, who yet felt as if the floor had yielded under his feet and he was falling into the Tube railway underground. Indeed Mr. ...

— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett

... would seem inevitable that the surface waters of the northern and southern frigid zones must, sooner or later, find their way to the bottom of the rest of the ocean; and there accumulate to a thickness dependent on the rate at which they absorb heat from the crust of the earth below, and from the surface ...

— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

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