Frosty
['frɒstɪ] or ['frɔsti]
Definition
(adj.) covered with frost; 'a frosty glass'; 'hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost'-Wm.Faulkner .
Typist: Malcolm--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
(a.) Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
(a.) Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
(a.) Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Cold, icy, wintry.[2]. White, gray-haired.
Typed by Lloyd
Examples
- I considered it frosty. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We had been out for one of our evening rambles, Holmes and I, and had returned about six o'clock on a cold, frosty winter's evening. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a fine frosty afternoon; the winter sun, already setting, gleamed pale on the tops of the garden-shrubs in the allée défendue. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We walked, that winter evening, in the fields together; and the blessed calm within us seemed to be partaken by the frosty air. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On a frosty winter afternoon, I rode in sight of Thornfield Hall. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Still all inward darkness, I left her about twilight; a walk of two miles lay before me; it was a clear, frosty night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As to Ada and me, whom he had wrapped up with great care, the night being sharp and frosty, we trembled from head to foot. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Priscilla