Nippy

3 definitions found

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

  nippy \nippy\ adj.
     Pleasantly cold and invigorating; -- of weather conditions.
  
     Syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, snappy.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nippy
       adj : 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},
              {frosty}, {nipping}, {snappy}, {parky}]
       [also: {nippiest}, {nippier}]

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

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "nippy":
     Siberian, algid, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold,
     bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, burning, chill, chilly, cold,
     cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cool,
     crisp, curried, cutting, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frosty,
     gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, high-seasoned, hot,
     hot as pepper, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy,
     inclement, keen, lively, nipping, numbing, penetrating, peppery,
     piercing, pinching, racy, raw, rigorous, seasoned, severe, sharp,
     shivery, sleety, slushy, snappy, spiced, spicy, stone-cold,
     subzero, supercooled, tangy, winterbound, winterlike, wintery,
     wintry, with a kick, zestful, zesty, zippy