frigid

Definition

Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“I am cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos.

Example Sentences

• "A frigid, fine rain was falling."
• "Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages."
• "In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid."