icyadjective
uk/ˈaɪ.si/us/ˈaɪ.si/icy adjective (COLD)
B1 covered in ice:
icy roads
an icy pavement
B1 extremely cold:
She opened the window and I was hit by an icy blast of air.
He fell into the icy waters of the Moscow river.
Her skin was icy to the touch.
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Precipitation: snow & ice
- crevasse
- drift
- freeze
- frost
- frosty
- glacial
- glaciation
- ground frost
- hailstorm
- hoarfrost
- ice cap
- Jack Frost
- moraine
- pack ice
- permafrost
- slushy
- snow line
- snowdrift
- snowfall
- snowflake
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Cold
icy adjective (UNFRIENDLY)
B2 unfriendly and showing no emotion:
an icy stare
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Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- antisocial
- asocial
- austere
- estrange
- estranged
- forbidding
- frostily
- give sb the time of day idiom
- hostile
- mixer
- saturnine
- sour
- unsociable
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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Not showing or feeling emotions
icily
adverb uk/ˈaɪ.səl.i/us/ˈaɪ.səl.i/
C2
She stared icily at us.