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Gelid definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GEL'ID, a. [L. gelidus, from gelo, to freeze.] Cold; very cold.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin gelidus, from gelu frost, cold — more at cold Date: 1599 extremely cold ; icy <gelid water> <a man of gelid reserve — New Yorker> • gelidity noun • gelidly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 icy, ice-cold. 2 chilly, cool. Etymology: L gelidus f. gelu frost

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gelid Gel"id, a. [L. gelidus, fr. gelun frost, cold. See Cold, and cf. Congeal, Gelatin, Jelly.] Cold; very cold; frozen. ``Gelid founts.'' --Thompson.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. (Rare.) Very cold, chill, chilly.

Moby Thesaurus

Siberian, algid, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blast-frozen, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, congealed, cool, crisp, cutting, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frostbitten, frostnipped, frosty, frozen, frozen solid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, icy-cold, inclement, keen, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, piercing, pinching, quick-frozen, raw, rigorous, severe, sharp, sharp-frozen, sleety, slushy, snappy, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry