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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The crew made an emergency landing in the Hudson River along midtown Manhattan and all 155 people aboard survived despite landing in frigid water. — Washington Post, "Russian pilot safely lands jetliner disabled by bird strike," 15 Aug. 2019 And even the hardy souls who still try to take part in ice fishing contests here have had to cancel 11 of the past dozen competitions for fear of straying onto perilously thin ice and tumbling into the frigid water. — Anchorage Daily News, "Extreme climate change has arrived in America. Here are the fastest-warming places.," 13 Aug. 2019 Expedition team members await our arrival in the frigid water near the peninsula landing spot to help us wade to the relative stability of the rocky shore. — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, "These New Expedition Cruises Take Travelers to the World’s Most Remote Corners," 28 June 2019 Now about a third of the species regularly comes to feed in these frigid waters. — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, "As right whales surge north, one death too many," 15 June 2019 But because the frigid Antarctic waters hold more dissolved oxygen than warmer water does, and because the ancestors of icefish probably already had some adaptations to help them prosper in the cold, the fish survived. — Quanta Magazine, "Icefish Study Adds Another Color to the Story of Blood," 22 Apr. 2019 But the water in the Jackson Park Lagoon, fed by Lake Michigan, was still frigid in March and April when the gators arrived and were dumped in. — Charles J. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, "The Humboldt alligator is all the rage, but the 1893 World’s Fair gators in Jackson Park are the original creatures from the Chicago lagoon," 28 June 2019 Because the press room — on the 7th floor in the ’70s and on the 9th floor thereafter, was frigid in winter. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "50 years of pols and paper chases: Tales from inside City Hall," 27 June 2019 Interesting side note: No actual ice dragons were available during production (bummer,) so sound engineers took turns bashing ice slabs with a hammer to create some of the frigid monster noises. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Here are the hottest video games to test drive at Comic-Con," 18 July 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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