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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FROST'Y, a.
1. Producing frost; having power to congeal water; as a frosty night; frosty weather.
2. Containing frost; as, the grass is frosty.
3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
4. Resembling hoar-frost; white gray-haired; as a frosty head.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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]
2: covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner [syn: frosty, rimed, rimy]
3: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (frostier; -est) Date: before 12th century 1. a. attended with or producing frost ; freezing b. briskly cold ; chilly 2. covered or appearing as if covered with frost ; hoary <a man of 65, with frosty eyebrows and hair — Nan Robertson> 3. marked by coolness or extreme reserve in manner <his smile was distinctly frosty — Erle Stanley Gardner> • frostily adverb • frostiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (frostier, frostiest) 1 cold with frost. 2 covered with or as with hoar-frost. 3 unfriendly in manner, lacking in warmth of feeling. Derivatives: frostily adv. frostiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frosty Frost"y, a. [Cf. AS. fyrstig.] 1. Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night. 2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty. 3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. --Johnson. 4. Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(frostier, frostiest) 1. If the weather is frosty, the temperature is below freezing. ...sharp, frosty nights. ADJ 2. You describe the ground or an object as frosty when it is covered with frost. The street was deserted except for a cat lifting its paws off the frosty stones. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Cold, icy, wintry, stinging, chilly, chill. 2. Cold, frigid, unloving, unimpassioned, indifferent, cold-hearted, unaffectionate, uncordial. 3. Cold, spiritless, unanimated, lifeless, dull-hearted. 4. White, gray-haired, frosted.

Moby Thesaurus

Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, argent, argentine, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blunt, canescent, catatonic, chalky, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, cretaceous, detached, disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless, fleecy-white, forbidding, freezing, frigid, frost-beaded, frost-chequered, frost-covered, frost-fettered, frost-rent, frostbound, frosted, frostlike, frosty-faced, frozen, gelid, glacial, grizzled, grizzly, guarded, heartless, hoar, hoar-frosted, hoary, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incompatible, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical, insusceptible, introverted, lactescent, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milky, modest, nippy, niveous, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, platinum, pure white, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, rime-frosted, rimed, seclusive, self-absorbed, semidiaphanous, semiopaque, semipellucid, semitransparent, shivery, shrinking, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, strained, subdued, suppressed, swan-white, tense, unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable, uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, white, white as snow, withdrawn