| 单词 | icy |
| 释义 | icy (once / 657 pages) adj Something that's icy is frozen like ice or covered in ice. A winter road could be icy; and, if you give someone an icy stare, they are going to feel like hitting the road. Use the adjective icy to describe your town's slippery sidewalks in the winter or the frosty peas you just removed from the freezer. You can also describe very cold conditions as icy: "I'm putting my long underwear on — it's icy out there!" When a person is icy, they are aloof and unemotional, as opposed to warm and friendly. This figurative meaning has been around since the late 1500s. WORD FAMILYicy: icier, iciest, icily, iciness+/deice: deiced, deicer, deices, deicing/deicer: deicers/ice: de-ice, deice, iced, ices, icing, icy/icing: icings USAGE EXAMPLESYurkewycz says the entrance of the cave can be icy, so use caution. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) You imagine successful pro quarterbacks being icy assassins, part boardroom and part Bond, the coolest guy in every room. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) There are the icy stares directed at latecomers by the punctual. Washington Times(Nov 29, 2016) 1adj covered with or containing or consisting of ice icy northern waters Syn frozen turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold 2adj shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice roads and trees glazed with an icy film Syn glazed, shiny having a shiny surface or coating 3adj extremely cold icy hands Syn arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, polar cold having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration 4adj devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain icy stare Syn frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, wintry cold extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion |
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