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gelid /ˈdʒɛlɪd /adjectiveIcy; extremely cold: the gelid pond she gave a gelid reply...- The wind coming from the gelid ocean was bitter cold, making exposed flesh burn.
- This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to her work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues.
- As the scores indicate - typically gelid to frozen - the shots seem to fall in the unflattering to outright frightening range.
Synonyms frozen, freezing, icy, ice-cold, arctic, glacial, polar, frosty, wintry, snowy, bitterly cold, sub-zero, chilly, Siberian, hyperborean, hyperboreal rare algid Derivatives Origin Early 17th century: from Latin gelidus, from gelu 'frost, intense cold'. |