ice-cold

ice-cold
ice-cold ice-cold adj. as cold as ice; extremely cold.

Syn: arctic, freezing, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar. [WordNet 1.5]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • ice-cold — [īs′kōld′] adj. very cold …   English World dictionary

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  • ice-cold — adjective /ˈʌɪskəʊld/ a) As cold as ice; very cold. The way she stared him down and walked away...everyone in the room could tell she was ice cold. b) Without emotion; distant. Syn: cold as ice …   Wiktionary

  • ice-cold — /uys kohld /, adj. 1. cold as ice: Her feet were ice cold. 2. without warmth of feeling or manner; unemotional; passionless: an ice cold reception. [bef. 1000; OE is calde; unrecorded in ME] Syn. 1. icelike, freezing, icy, frozen. * * * …   Universalium

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