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Definition of frigid in English: frigidadjective ˈfrɪdʒɪdˈfrɪdʒɪd 1Very cold in temperature. Example sentencesExamples - In experiments over the past 2 years, physicists have been slowing laser light to a crawl, sometimes even stopping it cold within certain frigid gasses and solids.
- Travelling under frigid conditions, with temperatures as low as minus 54°C, Wegener reached the station five weeks later.
- Forecasters are warning of more snow and frigid temperatures across Europe the next two days.
- But I kept running faster and faster until I got to the courtyard where I jumped into the cold, frigid fountain and let the water wash over my body.
- The sea here is as cold as Cornwall in winter and you have to wear a full wetsuit, boots, gloves and a hood to insulate you from the frigid waters and equally cold winds.
- These waters pass through an annual cycle in which thick ice freezes on the water during Antarctica's frigid winter, then breaks and drifts into the Ross Sea during the summer.
- In the prison where a woman is sentenced to spend the rest of her life, many of the windows have no glass to stop the frigid mountain winds.
- The cold, frigid air from the open windows chilled his body.
- Bigelow residents awoke to frigid temperatures last Sunday morning, and not just outside.
- Aquatic invertebrates are more plentiful in the south, but even in the frigid arctic waters sea stars, sea urchins, and crustaceans can be found, having found ways to adapt to the low temperatures.
- Rarely moving, never eating, standing in frigid cold, the fathers-to-be will lose half their body weight incubating their egg over the next two months.
- Logically the frigid temperatures and winds could have accounted for a good deal of this decrease.
- The wind swings around to the northwest, ushering in frigid temperatures.
- It is now so cold we want to die and the bleak, frigid pilgrimage to campus, wrought with icy peril and sub-zero gusts of wind, is a source of daily sorrow.
- They didn't adapt fast enough to survive the frigid temperature and lack of pressure.
- A cold, frigid breeze wafted down the narrow streets.
- Steiner noticed that because of frigid temperatures, inadequate heating, and poor insulation, one could see the children's breath inside the buildings.
- As their bodies moved on auto-pilot, they pushed on through the 30-mile trekking loop to face the frigid Alaskan glacial waters yet again.
- In the winter of '58 however, John came home one evening, his cheeks brilliantly pink from the frigid cold, and his hands shoved deep into his pockets.
- Rain, snow and frigid temperatures are delaying efforts to reach many of the survivors.
Synonyms very cold, bitterly cold, bitter, freezing, frozen, frosty, icy, icy-cold, ice-cold, chilly, wintry, bleak, sub-zero, arctic, Siberian, polar, glacial informal nippy British informal parky literary chill rare Hyperborean, hibernal, boreal, hiemal, gelid, algid, brumal, rimy - 1.1 (of a woman) unable to be sexually aroused and responsive.
I've never been good at rejecting people, so I told him I was frigid Example sentencesExamples - All-natural aphrodisiacs can get even the most flaccid of men and frigid of women in the mood and raring to go.
- With her usual perfection, Keaton plays an uptight frigid woman who is quietly appalled by her daughter's romantic liaison.
- Others become frigid and have problems in experiencing a healthy sexual life.
- It cures the sexually frigid and the easily upset; it reawakens interest in sex for those suffering from physical or psychological problems.
- Maybe she is frigid due to a bad experience with another man.
- He took credit for publishing the first horror comics and compared her understanding of comic books to a frigid old maid's understanding of sex.
- She'd seen her in action just last night, so she knew that the woman was far from frigid.
- You know I'm frigid and completely ill-at-ease with my sexuality!
- The author, an intelligent woman and self-described formerly frigid wife, provides a long laundry list of explanations for this unhappy state of affairs.
- Violent men, who I'm told quite often want sex after they've knocked their wives about, no doubt also classify as frigid the women who don't regard a black eye as acceptable foreplay.
- The frigid girl he'd first known was melting away.
Synonyms sexually unresponsive, unresponsive, undemonstrative, unaffectionate, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, passionless, unfeeling, unemotional, unloving, uncaring - 1.2 Stiff or formal in behaviour or style.
the frigid elegance of the new Opera Bastille Example sentencesExamples - ‘Listen to me, girl,’ he snapped, his tone suddenly frigid and unfriendly.
- She didn't want her new friend to think she was frigid or strange in any way.
- Before long, however, she's back on baby-sitting duty, as assigned to her by her frigid stepmother.
Synonyms stiff, formal, stony, steely, flinty, wooden, impersonal, indifferent, unresponsive, unemotional, unfeeling, unsmiling, unenthusiastic, austere, distant, aloof, remote, reserved, unapproachable frosty, cold, icy, cool, lukewarm, forbidding, unfriendly, unwelcoming, hostile informal offish, stand-offish
Derivatives noun frɪˈdʒɪdɪtifrəˈdʒɪdədi People do not view some behaviors such as addiction, violence, depression, and sexual frigidity as psychological problems. Example sentencesExamples - His hotel room was on the 17th floor; in the painting he conveys the feeling of the high rises and the frigidity of the weather.
- ‘They're guests,’ he answered calmly, though I could tell that he was trying desperately to keep the frigidity out of his voice.
- What was more, I was determined to defy the frigidity of my race, that ancient shameful legacy of inhibition.
- Ancient sources alluded to this element of frigidity by categorising the sign as ‘slightly barren’ in matters of fertility, and drawing pre-pubescent youth or sexless beings into its symbolic expression.
adverbˈfrɪdʒɪdliˈfrɪdʒɪdli The lake was frigidly cold, uncomfortable but cleansing. Example sentencesExamples - ‘We are all gratified to see your health so much improved,’ Lady Alison said frigidly.
- He responded frigidly by asking whether there were any such establishments.
- ‘I see,’ she replied frigidly, her movements stiff with hurt.
- ‘Talk is damaging, Lady Readle,’ she refuted frigidly.
noun The blue tones definitely convey the feeling of frigidness. Example sentencesExamples - The vibrant colors used accentuate the lushness of a forest, the frigidness atop high mountains, and the bleakness of a smoky factory.
- And yet for all the general frigidness of the whole environment, I wasn't really feeling too cold.
- Despite temperatures above the frigidness that we expect for early January, the sun still swings its lowly, fleeting winter arc.
- Brisk winds move through Sydney, but they never bite the skin with unbearable frigidness.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin frigidus, from frigere 'be cold', from frigus (noun) 'cold'. This comes from Latin adjective frigidus ‘cold’, from the noun frigus ‘cold’. The word is also behind refrigerate (Late Middle English). The refrigerator for preserving food appears in the mid 19th century, and was shortened to fridge in the 1920s.
Definition of frigid in US English: frigidadjectiveˈfrijidˈfrɪdʒɪd 1Very cold in temperature. Example sentencesExamples - Rain, snow and frigid temperatures are delaying efforts to reach many of the survivors.
- But I kept running faster and faster until I got to the courtyard where I jumped into the cold, frigid fountain and let the water wash over my body.
- Bigelow residents awoke to frigid temperatures last Sunday morning, and not just outside.
- The cold, frigid air from the open windows chilled his body.
- Aquatic invertebrates are more plentiful in the south, but even in the frigid arctic waters sea stars, sea urchins, and crustaceans can be found, having found ways to adapt to the low temperatures.
- In the prison where a woman is sentenced to spend the rest of her life, many of the windows have no glass to stop the frigid mountain winds.
- Logically the frigid temperatures and winds could have accounted for a good deal of this decrease.
- These waters pass through an annual cycle in which thick ice freezes on the water during Antarctica's frigid winter, then breaks and drifts into the Ross Sea during the summer.
- Steiner noticed that because of frigid temperatures, inadequate heating, and poor insulation, one could see the children's breath inside the buildings.
- The sea here is as cold as Cornwall in winter and you have to wear a full wetsuit, boots, gloves and a hood to insulate you from the frigid waters and equally cold winds.
- A cold, frigid breeze wafted down the narrow streets.
- As their bodies moved on auto-pilot, they pushed on through the 30-mile trekking loop to face the frigid Alaskan glacial waters yet again.
- Travelling under frigid conditions, with temperatures as low as minus 54°C, Wegener reached the station five weeks later.
- It is now so cold we want to die and the bleak, frigid pilgrimage to campus, wrought with icy peril and sub-zero gusts of wind, is a source of daily sorrow.
- The wind swings around to the northwest, ushering in frigid temperatures.
- Rarely moving, never eating, standing in frigid cold, the fathers-to-be will lose half their body weight incubating their egg over the next two months.
- Forecasters are warning of more snow and frigid temperatures across Europe the next two days.
- In experiments over the past 2 years, physicists have been slowing laser light to a crawl, sometimes even stopping it cold within certain frigid gasses and solids.
- They didn't adapt fast enough to survive the frigid temperature and lack of pressure.
- In the winter of '58 however, John came home one evening, his cheeks brilliantly pink from the frigid cold, and his hands shoved deep into his pockets.
Synonyms very cold, bitterly cold, bitter, freezing, frozen, frosty, icy, icy-cold, ice-cold, chilly, wintry, bleak, sub-zero, arctic, siberian, polar, glacial - 1.1 (especially of a woman) unable or unwilling to be sexually aroused and responsive.
my ex told everyone I was frigid Example sentencesExamples - All-natural aphrodisiacs can get even the most flaccid of men and frigid of women in the mood and raring to go.
- You know I'm frigid and completely ill-at-ease with my sexuality!
- He took credit for publishing the first horror comics and compared her understanding of comic books to a frigid old maid's understanding of sex.
- It cures the sexually frigid and the easily upset; it reawakens interest in sex for those suffering from physical or psychological problems.
- Others become frigid and have problems in experiencing a healthy sexual life.
- Maybe she is frigid due to a bad experience with another man.
- She'd seen her in action just last night, so she knew that the woman was far from frigid.
- Violent men, who I'm told quite often want sex after they've knocked their wives about, no doubt also classify as frigid the women who don't regard a black eye as acceptable foreplay.
- With her usual perfection, Keaton plays an uptight frigid woman who is quietly appalled by her daughter's romantic liaison.
- The frigid girl he'd first known was melting away.
- The author, an intelligent woman and self-described formerly frigid wife, provides a long laundry list of explanations for this unhappy state of affairs.
Synonyms sexually unresponsive, unresponsive, undemonstrative, unaffectionate, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, passionless, unfeeling, unemotional, unloving, uncaring - 1.2 Showing no friendliness or enthusiasm; stiff or formal in behavior or style.
Henrietta looked back with a frigid calm Example sentencesExamples - ‘Listen to me, girl,’ he snapped, his tone suddenly frigid and unfriendly.
- Before long, however, she's back on baby-sitting duty, as assigned to her by her frigid stepmother.
- She didn't want her new friend to think she was frigid or strange in any way.
Synonyms stiff, formal, stony, steely, flinty, wooden, impersonal, indifferent, unresponsive, unemotional, unfeeling, unsmiling, unenthusiastic, austere, distant, aloof, remote, reserved, unapproachable
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin frigidus, from frigere ‘be cold’, from frigus (noun) ‘cold’. |