English Explanatory Dictionary

ice-cold

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Very cold.
  2. Of a person, look, or behavior: without emotion; distant; (sometimes) silently disapproving.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, cold: as cold as ice or nearly so (close to a freezing point).
noun
  1. A cold serving of beer.

Pronunciation

/ˈaɪskəʊld/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ice-cold.wav

Word forms

ice-cold more ice-cold most ice-cold icecold ice cold ice-colds

Etymology

From Middle English *is-cold, from Old English īsċeald; equivalent to ice + cold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ieskoold (“ice-cold”), West Frisian iiskâld (“ice-cold”), Dutch ijskoud (“ice-cold”), Afrikaans yskoud (“ice-cold”), German Low German ieskold (“ice-cold”), German eiskalt (“ice-cold”), Yiddish אײַזקאַלט (ayzkalt, “ice-cold”), Danish iskold (“ice-cold”), Swedish iskall (“ice-cold”), Norwegian iskald (“ice-cold”), Faroese ísakaldur (“ice-cold”), Icelandic ískaldur (“ice-cold”).

Synonyms

cold as ice icy freezing cold freezing frigid frosty stone cold cold as a well-digger's arse algid Arctic Baltic boreal brass monkeys brumal chill chilled chilly clay-cold cold cold as a mackerel cold as charity frore frozen gelid glacial hiemal inclement nesh nippy parky polar sleety snowy taters wintry cold one frosty one

Antonyms

boiling hot steaming hot piping hot baking hot smoking hot hot choleric heated

Translations

Bulgarian: ле́деностуден Chinese Cantonese: 凍冰冰 /冻冰冰 Chinese Mandarin: 冰冷 Czech: ledový Czech: chladný jako led Dutch: ijskoud Finnish: jääkylmä French: glacé French: glacial German: eiskalt Hungarian: jéghideg Icelandic: ískaldur Latin: gelidus Norwegian: iskald Old English: isceald Plautdietsch: iesskolt Polish: lodowaty Polish: lodowata Portuguese: gélido Portuguese: gelado Russian: ледяно́й Russian: холо́дный как лёд Spanish: gélido Spanish: helado Swedish: iskall Turkish: buz gibi Yiddish: אײַזקאַלט
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