That is (felt to be) as cold as ice; freezing cold.

Of the weather, a season, etc.: characterized or affected by frost; extremely cold, freezing.

extremely cold (literal and figurative); in later use esp. of chilled or cold drinks (cf. sense 4); cf. icy-cold adj. at icy, adj. compounds 1b(b).

Intensely cold, frosty, frost-like. Now only poetic in the form frore (after Milton's use).

completely chilled, thoroughly cold; also as n., chill coldness.

Frozen; frosty; extremely cold.

Of the weather, the wind, etc.: intensely cold; so cold as to cause frostbite. Also (and in earliest use) figurative.

so cold as to cause numbness.

so cold as to chill.

Frigid, intensely cold.

Intensely cold, devoid of heat or warmth, of a very low temperature.

(of weather) cold enough to cause the fingers to become numb.

Of or belonging to, characteristic of, Siberia.

Chilled almost to freezing; freezing cold.

Frequently of a drink: that is (felt to be) as cool as ice; = ice-cold, adj. 1.

figurative and in figurative contexts. colloquial. Of conditions or weather: extremely cold, freezing.