frosty
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adjective- 1.
Cold, chilly; icy.
The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.
I'd like a frosty milkshake.
Đồng nghĩa: frigid, wintry, algid, Arctic, Baltic, boreal, brass monkeys, brumal, chill, chilled, chilly, clay-cold, cold, cold as a mackerel, cold as charity, freezing, frosty, frore, frozen, gelid, glacial, hiemal, icy, inclement, nesh, nippy, parky, polar, sleety, snowy, taters, wintry
- 2.
Having frost on it or in it.
The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.
The frosty beverage gave him a brain freeze.
Đồng nghĩa: frostbound, frosted, rimed
- 3.
(figuratively)Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.
After the divorce, she was civil but frosty to her ex.
Đồng nghĩa: cool, harsh, severe, aloof, cool, distant, frosty, hankty, hard-to-get, offish, quiet, remote, reserved, standoffish, strange, thorny, touch-me-not-ish, unapproachable, unbending, undemonstrative, unimpressionable, uninvolved, brutal, callous, cold, cold-eyed, cruel, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, harsh, humorless, icy, iron-hearted, insensate, insensitive, marble-hearted, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, unsympathetic, unmoved
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From Middle English frosty, forsty, from Old English forstiġ, fyrstiġ (frosty), from *frostag, *frustīg, frost. 2 cog Cognate with froastich, vorstig, fröstig, frostig, frostig. Compare also froasterch, frösterg.