frigid
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Synonyms & Antonyms for frigid
Synonyms
algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, chill, chilly, cold, coldish, cool, coolish, freezing, frosty, gelid, glacial, ice-cold, icy, nipping, nippy, numbing, polar, shivery, snappy, wintry (also wintery)
Antonyms
ardent, blazing, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, glowing, hot, igneous, molten, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, warming, white-hot
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What’s such a hot real estate market doing in such a frigid region? — R. Daniel Foster, Los Angeles Times, "Minnesota might be cold, but the homes are hot on HGTV’s ‘Stay or Sell’," 30 Aug. 2019 Not long after Simard bagged saplings in the misty Pacific Northwest, Kiers decamped from Bowdoin College in frigid Maine to the warm and humid Barro Colorado Island in Panama. — Quanta Magazine, "Soil’s Microbial Market Shows the Ruthless Side of Forests," 27 Aug. 2019 Clarity arrived when the cast and creators of the upcoming November feature took the stage at Disney’s biennial convention on Saturday, revealing some new footage, music, and details about the frigid film to its many warm, toasty fans. — Marc Snetiker, EW.com, "Frozen 2 teases Anna and Elsa's parents, a proposal, and an 'Unknown' showstopper," 24 Aug. 2019 Smollett, who is black and openly gay, reported that two men attacked him on a frigid January night in downtown Chicago, slipping a noose around his neck and shouting racist and homophobic slurs. — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, "Former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb named special prosecutor to look into Jussie Smollett case, from first report of an attack to dropping of charges against him," 23 Aug. 2019 With no atmosphere, all that heat simply radiates back off the same side, and the opposite side remains frigid. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Super-Earth at a nearby star is a Mercury-like hunk of rock," 20 Aug. 2019 Was there really ever an era of weather so frigid in the five boroughs? — Billboard Staff, Billboard, "Five Burning Questions: Billboard Staffers Discuss Billie Eilish's 'Bad Guy' Replacing Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' at No. 1," 20 Aug. 2019 The possibility of conflict playing out in frozen polar regions meant that the American military had to figure out if its weapons and monitoring systems would even work in frigid climates. — Author: Antonia Noori Farzan, Anchorage Daily News, "Trump reportedly wants to buy Greenland. So did the Truman administration.," 16 Aug. 2019 Employees often have to work in frigid rooms and mistakes with the slicing equipment can be fatal. — Jonnelle Marte, Washington Post, "Citizens line up for Mississippi jobs but fear ICE raids’ impact on immigrants," 13 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'frigid.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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