frigid
寒冷的,冰冷的,严寒,寒冷
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- : very cold in temperature: a frigid climate.
- : without warmth of feeling; without ardor or enthusiasm: a frigid reaction to the suggested law.
- : stiff or formal: a welcome that was polite but frigid.
- : inhibited in the ability to experience sexual excitement during sexual activity.unresponsive to sexual advances or stimuli.
- : unemotional or unimaginative; lacking passion, sympathy, or sensitivity: a correct, but frigid presentation.
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Examples
A line outside Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville on Thursday stretched multiple blocks, with people reporting that they waited for more than two hours in frigid weather to get their vaccines.
After the frigid weather outside, it was a breath of pure summer.
Cold weather can lead to poor circulation, which can, in turn, lead to uselessly frigid hands and frozen fingers.
One 2012 study had volunteers dunk their hands and feet in frigid 46-degree water for half an hour daily for 15 days.
First, the researchers checked whether the frigid Martian soil could even get wet.
After a half-century of frigid relations, the U.S. and Cuba have agreed to a thaw as the result of 18 months of secret talks.
Russia is rapidly building up its military forces in the Arctic in an effort to secure its claims in the frigid region.
Famine and frigid temperatures ensued, and roughly 10 percent of the population died.
She never liked her mother—a frigid and inattentive woman—but adored her father.
In the frigid temperatures, demonstrators constructed barricades, built a massive tent city and occupied government buildings.
"Looks as if she didn't mean to introduce him to us," she remarked, with an attempt at frigid criticism.