Icy
['aɪsɪ] or ['aɪsi]
Definition
(adj.) covered with or containing or consisting of ice; 'icy northern waters' .
(adj.) shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice; 'roads and trees glazed with an icy film' .
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Definition
(superl.) Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.
(superl.) Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.
Checker: Zelig
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Glacial.[2]. Cold, chilling, frosty.[3]. Frigid, indifferent, cold-hearted.
Typist: Marietta
Examples
- Sir Leicester looks on at this invasion of the sacred precincts with an icy stare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Glessen or glasses are flat sectional streaks having an icy appearance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But he felt something icy gathering at his heart. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His heart went icy at the sound of her voice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Their icy and glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But in icy Petrograd is little food, little wood, and no coal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We cannot think aught than that Dejah Thoris has sought the icy bosom of Iss, and that her devoted servants have chosen to accompany her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was as if some hard icy pressure had melted, and her consciousness had room to expand: her past was come back to her with larger interpretation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was lucky to have a heavy timber to hold on to, and I lay in the icy water with my chin on the wood, holding as easily as I could with both hands. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Now the riving and fall of icy rocks clave the air; now the thunder of the avalanche burst on our ears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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