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Synonyms for icy
ˈaɪ siicy
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Princeton's WordNet
frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintryadjective
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"
Synonyms:
wintry, frozen, nipping, wintery, frigid, frozen(p), quick-frozen, arctic, snappy, gelid, crisp, rooted(p), fixed, glacial, rimed, flash-frozen, cold, polar, stock-still, rimy, nippy, frostyarctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polaradjective
extremely cold
"an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather"
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polar, north-polar, cold, gelid, pivotal, diametric, opposite, frosty, diametrical, frozen, glacial, arctic, frigid, wintryicyadjective
covered with or containing or consisting of ice
"icy northern waters"
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polar, glacial, gelid, frosty, frozen, wintry, arctic, frigidicyadjective
shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice
"roads and trees glazed with an icy film"
Synonyms:
polar, glacial, gelid, frosty, frozen, wintry, arctic, frigid
Editors Contribution
coldadjective
the weather is lower than comfortable.
Submitted by Lollipopslove on May 9, 2022
Dictionary of English Synonymes
icyadjective
Synonyms:
glacialicyadjective
icyadjective
Synonyms:
frigid, indifferent, cold-hearted
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1672 | fixed | |
#1960 | ice | |
#1986 | cold | |
#5425 | opposite | |
#6604 | frozen | |
#7487 | polar | |
#7734 | arctic | |
#11793 | crisp | |
#12521 | freezing | |
#20303 | icy | |
#21478 | pivotal | |
#21958 | iced | |
#25063 | glacial | |
#27777 | frosty | |
#38411 | snappy | |
#52117 | frigid | |
#61943 | wintry | |
#91935 | nipping | |
#117029 | nippy | |
#133733 | wintery | |
#278104 | diametric |
How to use icy in a sentence?
Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry:
We anticipate downed trees, limbs and powerlines. It is critical that motorists take this storm system very seriously and stay off the roads through the end of the event to give our crews the space needed to work, as the forecast has evolved, it has become more likely that a significant area of Georgia will experience icy conditions as part of the incoming storm system.
The dynamic interface of a complex core and seawater could potentially create energy sources that might support life, while we have not found evidence of the presence of microbial life in the ocean of Enceladus, the growing evidence for chemical disequilibrium offers a tantalizing hint that habitable conditions could exist beneath the moons icy crust.
She’s bubbly, playing, friendly, sweet. She was eating an icy pole, she spilt it every way. She told me it was very, very sticky, which I believed, and she was just delightful.
The interaction of ascending magma and the icy substrate of this region could have provided favorable conditions for microbial life fairly recently and raises the possibility of extant life in this region.
She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.
Translations for icy
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- zledovatělý, ledový, mrazivýCzech
- eisigGerman
- glaciaEsperanto
- helado, hieloSpanish
- jäinen, jääkylmä, jäätävä, jääpeitteinenFinnish
- glacéFrench
- reòtaScottish Gaelic
- glacia, glaciatra, glacialaIdo
- ghiacciatoItalian
- 氷のようなJapanese
- ijskoudDutch
- isete, islagt, isbelagt, isnendeNorwegian
- ледяно́й, обледене́лыйRussian
- buzluTurkish
- gladikVolapük
- 冰冷的Chinese
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