Gelid

3 definitions found

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

  Gelid \Gel"id\ (j[e^]l"[i^]d), a. [L. gelidus, fr. gelu frost,
     cold. See {Cold}, and cf. {Congeal}, {Gelatin}, {Jelly}.]
     Cold; very cold; frozen. "Gelid founts." --Thompson.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  gelid
       adj : extremely cold; "an arctic climate";  "a frigid day"; "gelid
             waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy
             hands"; "polar weather" [syn: {arctic}, {frigid}, {glacial},
              {icy}, {polar}]

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

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "gelid":
     Siberian, algid, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold,
     blast-frozen, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilly, cold,
     cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble,
     congealed, cool, crisp, cutting, freezing, freezing cold, frigid,
     frostbitten, frostnipped, frosty, frozen, frozen solid, glacial,
     hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice, ice-cold, ice-encrusted,
     icelike, icy, icy-cold, inclement, keen, nipping, nippy, numbing,
     penetrating, piercing, pinching, quick-frozen, raw, rigorous,
     severe, sharp, sharp-frozen, sleety, slushy, snappy, stone-cold,
     subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry