frosty

Adjective Satellite

• devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
  • "got a frosty reception"
• covered with frost; ; -Wm.Faulkner
  • "a frosty glass"
• pleasantly cold and invigorating
  • "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"

Adj

• Cold, chilly; icy.
• Having frost on it or in it.
• Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.

Adjective

• Covered with frost; unfriendly or lacking warmth.

Examples

• After the divorce, she was civil but frosty to her ex.
• His frosty demeanor after losing revealed his competitive nature.
• I'd like a frosty milkshake.
• The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.
• The frosty beverage gave him a brain freeze.
• The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.

Synonyms

crisp, frigid, frozen, glacial, icy, nipping, nippy, rimed, rimy, snappy, wintry, Arctic, Baltic, algid, aloof, benumbed, bitter, bleak, bone-chilling, boreal, brass monkeys, brisk, brumal, callous, chill, chilled, chilly, clay-cold, cold, cold as a mackerel, cold as a well-digger's arse, cold as a witch's kiss, cold as a witch's teat, cold as a witch's tit, cold as charity, cold as ice, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, cold-eyed, cool, distant, dour, drafty, flint-hearted, forbidding, freezing, frore, frostbound, frosted, frosty, gelid, grim, hankty, hard, hard-boiled, hard-to-get, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, hiemal, humorless, inclement, insensitive, iron-hearted, nesh, offish, parky, polar, quiet, remote, reserved, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, shivering, sleety, snowy, standoffish, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strange, strict, taters, thorny, touch-me-not-ish, tough, unapproachable, unbending, undemonstrative, unimpressionable, uninvolved, unmoved, unsympathetic

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