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Icy

adjective

(compar. icier; superl. iciest)

Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain. Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, wintry. "Got a frosty reception" , "A frozen look on their faces" , "A glacial handshake" , "Icy stare" , "Wintry smile"

Extremely cold. Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, polar. "A frigid day" , "Gelid waters of the North Atlantic" , "Glacial winds" , "Icy hands" , "Polar weather"

Covered with or containing or consisting of ice.

Shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice.

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"Icy" Quotes from Famous Books

... icy lover! But this is not all. To relieve both of them from misrepresentation and scandal, he came hither on service. Not long ago—for his happiness or unhappiness—his friend died. And what then? Do you think he flew to Russia. No! his ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various

... country side below us was a patch work of rocks and fields and denuded forestland. Christ Church like a vision of whiteness sprang out to the west upon our vision, and immediately about us the mingling rivulets poured their musical streams through and over the icy ...

— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap

... many leagues of the spot. We were up in the ranges prospecting then. Well, we made camp and gave him supper—he couldn't eat very much—and he told me what brought him there afterwards. It seemed to me he'd always been weedy in the chest, but he'd been working waist-deep in an icy creek, building a dam at a mine, until his lungs had given out. The mining boss was a hard case and had no mercy on him, but the lad, who seemed to have had a rough time in the Mountain Province, stayed with it ...

— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss

... projecting cliff. The ledge was covered with fine sand, as if on purpose for a duel. All around, like an innumerable herd, crowded the mountains, their summits lost to view in the golden mist of the morning; and towards the south rose the white mass of Elbruz, closing the chain of icy peaks, among which fibrous clouds, which had rushed in from the east, were already roaming. I walked to the extremity of the ledge and gazed down. My head nearly swam. At the foot of the precipice all seemed dark ...

— A Hero of Our Time • M. Y. Lermontov

... and she went away as she came. When she got back to Victoria, she felt for the first time as if her own little life had been swallowed up in the turmoil of London, and she had gone down to the cold depths of an icy sea. ...

— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine

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