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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective frosty has 3 senses
- frosty(s = adj.all) frigid, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry - devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile"
- frosty(s = adj.all) rimed, rimy - covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost" Derived forms noun frost3, noun frost1, noun frostiness1
- frosty(s = adj.all) crisp, nipping, nippy, snappy - pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather" Derived forms noun frost2, noun frostiness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
frosty, a. [Cf. AS. fyrstig.].
- Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night. [1913 Webster]
- Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty. [1913 Webster]
- Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
frosty, adj. (frostier, frostiest)
1 cold with frost.
2 covered with or as with hoar-frost.
3 unfriendly in manner, lacking in warmth of feeling.
1 cold with frost.
2 covered with or as with hoar-frost.
3 unfriendly in manner, lacking in warmth of feeling.
Derivative
frostily adv. frostiness n.
THESAURUS
frosty
Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, argent, argentine, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blunt, canescent, catatonic, chalky, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, cretaceous, detached, disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless, fleecy-white, forbidding, freezing, frigid, frost-beaded, frost-chequered, frost-covered, frost-fettered, frost-rent, frostbound, frosted, frostlike, frosty-faced, frozen, gelid, glacial, grizzled, grizzly, guarded, heartless, hoar, hoar-frosted, hoary, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incompatible, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical, insusceptible, introverted, lactescent, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milky, modest, nippy, niveous, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, platinum, pure white, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, rime-frosted, rimed, seclusive, self-absorbed, semidiaphanous, semiopaque, semipellucid, semitransparent, shivery, shrinking, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, strained, subdued, suppressed, swan-white, tense, unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable, uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, white, white as snow, withdrawnROGET THESAURUS
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Cold
N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.
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