Frigid
['frɪdʒɪd]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; 'a frigid greeting'; 'got a frosty reception'; 'a frozen look on their faces'; 'a glacial handshake'; 'icy stare'; 'wintry smile' .
手打:莱曼--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.
(a.) Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.
(a.) Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
吉尔伯特校對
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Cold, cool, GELID, not hot, of a low temperature.[2]. Dull, unanimated, lifeless.[3]. Forbidding, formal, prim, stiff, repulsive, chilling.
以利沙整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Cold, inanimate, lifeless, passionless, distant, forbidding
ANT:Warm, ardent, impassioned
手打:齐妮亚
例句/造句/用法:
- Nor has he anything more to say or do but to nod once in the same frigid and discourteous manner and to say briefly, You can go. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mrs. Fairfax folded up her knitting: I took my portfolio: we curtseyed to him, received a frigid bow in return, and so withdrew. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Mac put out one finger, armed with a buckskin glove, and made a very frigid bow to Mr. Wenham over his tight cravat. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The cold and frosty night without was doubly frigid to her. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He was decidedly frigid in his manner to us, especially when he heard the errand upon which we had come. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The children came up to salute him, and he kissed them in his usual frigid manner. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I saw her in a black gown and widow's cap; frigid, perhaps, but not uncivil: a model of elderly English respectability. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- To stare Becky out of countenance required a severer glance than even the frigid old Bareacres could shoot out of her dismal eyes. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
手打:齐妮亚