Synonyms for icy
ˈaɪ siicy

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1. 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, frosty

   Antonyms:
   hot, unfrozen, unglazed

2. arctic, 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"

   Synonyms:
   polar, north-polar, cold, gelid, pivotal, diametric, opposite, frosty, diametrical, frozen, glacial, arctic, frigid, wintry

   Antonyms:
   unglazed, unfrozen, hot

3. icyadjective

   covered with or containing or consisting of ice

   "icy northern waters"

   Synonyms:
   polar, glacial, gelid, frosty, frozen, wintry, arctic, frigid

   Antonyms:
   hot, unfrozen, unglazed

4. icyadjective

   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

   Antonyms:
   unglazed, unfrozen, hot

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1. coldadjective

   the weather is lower than comfortable.

   Submitted by Lollipopslove on May 9, 2022  

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1. icyadjective

   Synonyms:
   glacial

2. icyadjective

   Synonyms:
   cold, chilling, frosty

3. icyadjective

   Synonyms:
   frigid, indifferent, cold-hearted

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1. icyadjective

   Synonyms:
   glacial, glacious

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1. List of paraphrases for "icy":

   frigid, iced, ice-cold, glacial, freezing, ice, cold, frozen

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How to use icy in a sentence?

1. Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry:

   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.

2. Kelsi Singer:

   The way these features look is very different than any volcanoes across the solar system, either icy examples or rocky volcanoes, they formed as mountains, but there is no caldera at the top, and they have large bumps all over them.

3. SwRIsHunter:

   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.

4. Kimberlee Robinson:

   I knew it was icy, but I didn’t think it was that bad.

5. Edward Guinan:

   Geothermal heating could support' life zones' under its surface, akin to subsurface lakes found in Antarctica, we note that the surface temperature on Jupiter's icy moon Europa is similar to Edward Emerson Barnard b, but because of tidal heating, Europa probably has liquid oceans under its icy surface.