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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRIG'ID, a. [L. frigidus, from frigeo, to be or to grow cold; rigeo, to be stiff or frozen. Gr.]
1. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; as the frigid zone.
2. Wanting warmth of affection; unfeeling; as a frigid temper or constitution.
3. Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
4. Dull; jejune; unanimated; wanting the fire of genius or fancy; as a frigid style; frigid rhymes.
5. Stiff; formal; forbidding; as a frigid look or manner.
6. Wanting zeal; dull; formal; lifeless; as frigid services.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman" [syn: cold, frigid]
2: extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar]
3: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin frigidus, from frig?re to be cold; akin to Latin frigus frost, cold, Greek rhigos Date: 1619 1. a. intensely cold b. lacking warmth or ardor ; indifferent 2. lacking imaginative qualities ; insipid 3. a. abnormally averse to sexual intercourse — used especially of women b. of a female unable to achieve orgasm during sexual intercourse • frigidly adverb • frigidness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 a lacking friendliness or enthusiasm; apathetic, formal, forced. b dull, flat, insipid. c chilling, depressing. 2 (of a woman) sexually unresponsive. 3 (esp. of climate or air) cold. Phrases and idioms: frigid zones the parts of the earth north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle. Derivatives: frigidity n. frigidly adv. frigidness n. Etymology: L frigidus f. frigere be cold f. frigus (n.) cold

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frigid Frig"id, a. [L. frigidus, fr. frigere to be cold; prob. akin to Gr. ? to shudder, or perh. to ? cold. Cf. Frill.] 1. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate. 2. Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service. 3. Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent. --Johnson. Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23? 28? from the pole. See the Note under Arctic.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Frigid means extremely cold. (FORMAL) A snowstorm hit the West today, bringing with it frigid temperatures... = icy ADJ 2. If a woman is frigid, she finds it difficult to become sexually aroused. You can often use frigid to show disapproval. My husband says I am frigid. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ • frigidity ...an inability to experience orgasm (often called frigidity).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Cold, cool, gelid, of a low temperature. 2. Dull, uninteresting, uninterested, unanimated, lifeless, cold, destitute of enthusiasm, without fervor, spiritless, tame. 3. Forbidding, formal, prim, stiff, rigid, repellent, repelling, repulsive, chilling, freezing.

Moby Thesaurus

Olympian, Siberian, affectless, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, asexual, austere, autistic, backward, bashful, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blank, bleak, blunt, boreal, brisk, brumal, callous, castrated, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, crisp, cutting, detached, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dull, emasculated, emotionally dead, emotionless, eunuchized, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, freezing, freezing cold, frosted, frosty, frozen, frustrated, gelid, glacial, guarded, haughty, heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal, impervious, impotent, inaccessible, inclement, indifferent, inexcitable, inhibited, insusceptible, introverted, keen, modest, neuter, neutral, nipping, nippy, nonemotional, numbing, obdurate, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, passive, penetrating, piercing, pinching, polar, prim, raw, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, rigid, rigorous, seclusive, self-absorbed, severe, sexless, sharp, shrinking, sleety, slushy, snappy, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, steely, stiff, stone-cold, stony, strait-laced, subdued, subzero, supercooled, suppressed, thick-skinned, unaffable, unaffectionate, unapproachable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, undersexed, unemotional, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsexed, unsexual, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withdrawn