algid

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: al=gid

CIDE DICTIONARY

algid, a. [L. algidus cold, fr. algere to be cold: cf. F. algide.].

 Cold; chilly.  Bailey.  [1913 Webster]

Algid cholera (Med.), Asiatic cholera.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

algid, adj. Med. cold, chilly.

Derivative

algidity n.

Etymology

L algidus f. algere be cold

THESAURUS

algid

Siberian, aguey, aguish, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, blue with cold, boreal, brisk, brumal, chattering, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cool, crisp, cutting, dithery, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frozen, frozen to death, gelid, glacial, half-frozen, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, severe, shaky, sharp, shivering, shivery, sleety, slushy, snappy, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, with chattering teeth

ROGET THESAURUS

algid

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.