icy
Adjective Satellite
- devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
- "icy stare"
- extremely cold
- "icy hands"
- covered with or containing or consisting of ice
- "icy northern waters"
- shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice
- "roads and trees glazed with an icy film"
Adj
- Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.
- Covered with ice, wholly or partially.
- Characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold.
- To be wearing an excessive amount of jewelry, especially of the high-quality and expensive kind.
Adjective
- Covered with, resembling, or made of ice; very cold.
Examples
- An icy response followed my attempt to play a seven-letter word that turned out to be fake.
Origin / Etymology
From ice + -y; cf. Old English īsiġ.
Synonyms
arctic, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, polar, wintry, bejeweled, callous, cold, cold-eyed, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frostbound, frosted, glacious, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, humorless, ice-covered, icebound, iced-over, icy, insensitive, iron-hearted, rigorous, rimed, rockhearted, severe, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, uncaring, unmoved, unsympathetic, wintrified
Antonyms
ice-free
Scrabble Score: 8
icy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordicy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
icy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary