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icy [ˈaɪsɪ] adj icier, iciest
1. made of, covered with, or containing ice 2. resembling ice 3. freezing or very cold 4. cold or reserved in manner; aloof ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
icy adjective 1. cold, freezing, bitter, biting, raw, chill, chilling, arctic, chilly, frosty, glacial, ice-cold, frozen over, frost-bound An icy wind blew across the moor. cold hot, warm, boiling, blistering, sizzling 3. unfriendly, cold, distant, hostile, forbidding, indifferent, aloof, stony, steely, frosty, glacial, frigid, unwelcoming His response was icy. unfriendly warm, friendly, cordial, gracious Translations icy [ˈaɪsɪ] ADJ (icier (compar) (iciest (superl))) 1. (= covered with ice) [road, ground] → helado, cubierto de hielo the icy conditions caused accidents → las heladas provocaron accidentes I don't like driving when it's icy → no me gusta conducir cuando hiela 2. (= freezing) [air, wind, weather] → glacial; [hand, water] → helado the water was icy cold → el agua estaba helada it's icy cold out here → aquí fuera hace un frío glacial 3. (fig) (= cold) [stare, silence, tone, reception] → glacial icy [ˈaɪsi] adj [road] → verglacé(e) The roads are icy BUT Il y a du verglas sur les routes. → Les routes sont verglacées. icy icy [ˈaɪsɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (road, hand) → ghiacciato/a; (weather, temperature, stare) → gelido/a it's icy cold → si gela icy → جليدى ledový iskold eisig παγωμένος gélido jäinen glacé leden ghiacciato 氷で覆われた 얼음의 ijzig iset lodowaty congelado ледяной isig เย็นจัด buzlu phủ băng 结冰的 Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Arctic bitter cryo- cryoplankton frigid frosty frozen gelid glacial glacially Glacious gritter ICE ice-cold icily iciness icy pole Icy-pearled Kuiper belt | Often he took to the rim-ice that was beginning to form, and more than once he crashed through and struggled for life in the icy current. How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night The limit of this evil time had arrived only when, on the dawn of a winter's morning, Peter Quint was found, by a laborer going to early work, stone dead on the road from the village: a catastrophe explained-- superficially at least--by a visible wound to his head; such a wound as might have been produced--and as, on the final evidence, HAD been-- by a fatal slip, in the dark and after leaving the public house, on the steepish icy slope, a wrong path altogether, at the bottom of which he lay. |
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