frigid

• POS: Adjective

CIDE DICTIONARY

frigid, a. [L. frigidus, fr. frigere to be cold; prob. akin to Gr. to shudder, or perh. to cold. Cf. Frill.].

•  Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.  [1913 Webster]
•  Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.  [1913 Webster]
•  Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]

Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23Arctic.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

frigid, adj.
1 a lacking friendliness or enthusiasm; apathetic, formal, forced. b dull, flat, insipid. c chilling, depressing.
2 (of a woman) sexually unresponsive.
3 (esp. of climate or air) cold.

Idiom

frigid zones the parts of the earth north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle.

Derivative

frigidity n. frigidly adv. frigidness n.

Etymology

L frigidus f. frigere be cold f. frigus (n.) cold

THESAURUS

frigid

Olympian, Siberian, affectless, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, asexual, austere, autistic, backward, bashful, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blank, bleak, blunt, boreal, brisk, brumal, callous, castrated, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, crisp, cutting, detached, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dull, emasculated, emotionally dead, emotionless, eunuchized, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, freezing, freezing cold, frosted, frosty, frozen, frustrated, gelid, glacial, guarded, haughty, heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal, impervious, impotent, inaccessible, inclement, indifferent, inexcitable, inhibited, insusceptible, introverted, keen, modest, neuter, neutral, nipping, nippy, nonemotional, numbing, obdurate, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, passive, penetrating, piercing, pinching, polar, prim, raw, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, rigid, rigorous, seclusive, self-absorbed, severe, sexless, sharp, shrinking, sleety, slushy, snappy, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, steely, stiff, stone-cold, stony, strait-laced, subdued, subzero, supercooled, suppressed, thick-skinned, unaffable, unaffectionate, unapproachable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, undersexed, unemotional, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsexed, unsexual, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withdrawn

ROGET THESAURUS

frigid

Feebleness

N feebleness, feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid, colorless, enervated, proposing, prosy, prosaic, unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy- washy, sketchy, slight, careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent), slipshod, slipslop, inexact, puerile, childish, flatulent, rambling.

Insensibility

N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.

Indifference

N indifference, neutrality, coldness, anaphrodisia, unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance, want of interest, want of earnestness, anorexy, anorexia, inappetency, apathy, supineness, disdain, recklessness, inattention, anaphrodisiac, antaphrodisiac, lust-quencher, passion-queller, indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm, cool, cool as a cucumber, unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante, easygoing, devil-may- care, careless, listless, lackadaisical, half-hearted, unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous, unsolicitous, unattracted, aloof, unapproachable, remote, uncaring, unattractive, unalluring, undesired, undesirable, uncared for, unwished, unvalued, all one to, insipid, vain, for aught one cares, Int, never mind, Who cares? whatever you like, whatever, I couldn't care less, I could care less, anything will do, es macht nichts.

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.