Frigid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frigid \Frig"id\, a. [L. frigidus, fr. frigere to be cold; prob.
     akin to Gr. ? to shudder, or perh. to ? cold. Cf. {Frill}.]
     1. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a
        frigid climate.
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     2. 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.
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     3. Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the
        generative power; impotent. --Johnson.
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     {Frigid zone}, that part of the earth which lies between
        either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23? 28? from
        the pole. See the Note under {Arctic}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  frigid
       adj 1: sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid
              woman" [syn: {cold}]
       2: extremely cold; "an arctic climate";  "a frigid day"; "gelid
          waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy
          hands"; "polar weather" [syn: {arctic}, {gelid}, {glacial},
           {icy}, {polar}]
       3: 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" [syn: {frosty},
           {frozen}, {glacial}, {icy}, {wintry}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  164 Moby Thesaurus words for "frigid":
     Olympian, Siberian, affectless, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic,
     asexual, austere, autistic, backward, bashful, below zero, biting,
     bitter, bitterly cold, blank, bleak, blunt, boreal, brisk, brumal,
     callous, castrated, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cold,
     cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble,
     cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, crisp, cutting,
     detached, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dull,
     emasculated, emotionally dead, emotionless, eunuchized, exclusive,
     expressionless, forbidding, freezing, freezing cold, frosted,
     frosty, frozen, frustrated, gelid, glacial, guarded, haughty,
     heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-cold,
     ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive,
     impersonal, impervious, impotent, inaccessible, inclement,
     indifferent, inexcitable, inhibited, insusceptible, introverted,
     keen, modest, neuter, neutral, nipping, nippy, nonemotional,
     numbing, obdurate, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch,
     passionless, passive, penetrating, piercing, pinching, polar, prim,
     raw, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent,
     retiring, rigid, rigorous, seclusive, self-absorbed, severe,
     sexless, sharp, shrinking, sleety, slushy, snappy, soulless,
     spiritless, standoff, standoffish, steely, stiff, stone-cold,
     stony, strait-laced, subdued, subzero, supercooled, suppressed,
     thick-skinned, unaffable, unaffectionate, unapproachable,
     uncongenial, undemonstrative, undersexed, unemotional, unexpansive,
     unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unimpassioned, unimpressionable,
     unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsexed,
     unsexual, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, winterbound,
     winterlike, wintery, wintry, withdrawn