Frosty

3 definitions found

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

  Frosty \Frost"y\, a. [Cf. AS. fyrstig.]
     1. Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to
        congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
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     2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.


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     3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or
        courage. --Johnson.
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     4. Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white;
        gray-haired; as, a frosty head. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  frosty
       adj 1: 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:
              {frigid}, {frozen}, {glacial}, {icy}, {wintry}]
       2: covered with frost;  "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed
          and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner [syn: {rimed}, {rimy}]
       3: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and
          frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day";
          "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term) [syn: {crisp},
           {nipping}, {nippy}, {snappy}, {parky}]
       [also: {frostiest}, {frostier}]

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

  145 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
     withdrawn