Icy

3 definitions found

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

  Icy \I"cy\, a. [Compar. {Icier}; superl. {Iciest}.] [AS.
     [imac]sig. See {Ice}.]
     1. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold;
        frosty. "Icy chains." --Shak. "Icy region." --Boyle. "Icy
        seas." --Pope.
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     2. Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.;
        chilling; frigid; cold.
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              Icy was the deportment with which Philip received
              these demonstrations of affection.    --Motley.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  icy
       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}, {frosty}, {frozen}, {glacial}, {wintry}]
       2: extremely cold; "an arctic climate";  "a frigid day"; "gelid
          waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy
          hands"; "polar weather" [syn: {arctic}, {frigid}, {gelid},
           {glacial}, {polar}]
       3: covered with or containing or consisting of ice; "icy
          northern waters"
       4: shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice; "roads and
          trees glazed with an icy film"
       [also: {iciest}, {icier}]

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

  157 Moby Thesaurus words for "icy":
     Olympian, Siberian, affectless, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic,
     autistic, backward, bashful, below zero, biting, bitter,
     bitterly cold, blank, blast-frozen, bleak, blunt, boreal, brisk,
     brumal, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity,
     cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cold-blooded,
     coldhearted, congealed, constrained, cool, crisp, cutting,
     detached, disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged,
     dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless,
     forbidding, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frostbitten, frosted,
     frostnipped, frosty, frozen, frozen solid, gelid, glacial, guarded,
     heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice, ice-cold,
     ice-encrusted, icelike, icy-cold, immovable, impassible, impassive,
     impersonal, inaccessible, inclement, incompatible, indifferent,
     inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical, insusceptible, introverted,
     keen, modest, nipping, nippy, nonemotional, numbing, objective,
     obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, penetrating, piercing,
     pinching, quick-frozen, raw, remote, removed, repressed, reserved,
     restrained, reticent, retiring, rigorous, seclusive, self-absorbed,
     severe, sharp, sharp-frozen, shivery, shrinking, sleety, slushy,
     snappy, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, stone-cold,
     strained, subdued, subzero, supercooled, suppressed, 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, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withdrawn