frigid
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of frigid
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
“A frigid, fine rain was falling.”
“Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.”
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adj
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Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
“A frigid, fine rain was falling.”
“Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.”
- Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
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(colloquial)Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.
“In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos Proto-Italic *srīgos Latin frīgus Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ēō Latin -eō Latin frīgeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin frīgidusbor. English frigid…
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos Proto-Italic *srīgos Latin frīgus Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ēō Latin -eō Latin frīgeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin frīgidusbor. English frigid Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos.
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