different between wintry vs frigid

English

Alternative forms

• wintery

Etymology

From Old English wintrig. Also constructed from winter +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?nt(?)??/
• (General American) enPR: w?n?t(?-)r?, IPA^(key): /?w?nt(?)?i/, [?w???(?)?i]
• Rhymes: -?nt?i
• Hyphenation: win?try

Adjective

wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)

1. Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.

   wintry weather

2. Of precipitation, containing sleet or snow.

   It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.

3. Aged, white-haired.
4. Chilling, cheerless.
   • 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Bounder's Folly

     He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.

   a wintry remark

Synonyms

• (suggestive or characteristic of winter): brumal, hibernal, hiemal

Derived terms

Translations

References

• wintry at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fr?gidus (“cold”), from fr?ge? (“I am cold”), from fr?gus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sriges-, *sriHges-.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr?j'?d, IPA^(key): /?f??d??d/
• Rhymes: -?d??d

Adjective

frigid (comparative frigider or more frigid, superlative frigidest or most frigid)

1. Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
2. Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
3. (colloquial) Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.

Antonyms

• fervid

Related terms

• frigidity
• frigidly
• frigidness

Translations

References

• frigid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• frigid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Danish

Adjective

frigid

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Inflection

Related terms

• frigiditet

References

• “frigid” in Den Danske Ordbog

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f?i??i?t]
• Hyphenation: fri?git

Adjective

frigid (comparative frigider, superlative am frigidesten)

1. Alternative form of frigide

Declension

Further reading

• “frigid” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French frigide, Latin frigidus. See also frig.

Adjective

frigid m or n (feminine singular frigid?, masculine plural frigizi, feminine and neuter plural frigide)

1. frigid

Declension

Related terms

• frigiditate
• frig