About The Word Gelid
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Gelid
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What's The Definition Of Gelid?
[adj] extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get inside; I'm freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Gelid: arctic | cold | freezing | frigid | glacial | icy | polar Related Terms | Find terms related to Gelid: algid | arctic | below zero | biting | bitter | bitterly cold | blast-frozen | bleak | boreal | brisk | brumal | chill | chilly | cold | cold as charity | cold as death | cold as ice | cold as marble | congealed | cool | crisp | cutting | freezing | freezing cold | frigid | frostbitten | frostnipped | frosty | frozen | frozen solid | glacial | hibernal | hiemal | hyperborean | ice | ice-cold | ice-encrusted | icelike | icy | icy-cold | inclement | keen | nipping | nippy | numbing | penetrating | piercing | pinching | quick-frozen | raw | rigorous | severe | sharp | sharp-frozen | Siberian | sleety | slushy | snappy | stone-cold | subzero | supercooled | winterbound | winterlike | wintery | wintry See Also | Gelid In Webster's Dictionary \Gel"id\, a. [L. gelidus, fr. gelun frost, cold. See
{Cold}, and cf. {Congeal}, {Gelatin}, {Jelly}.]
Cold; very cold; frozen. ``Gelid founts.'' --Thompson.
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