icy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: i=cy
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

icy, a. [AS. īsig. See Ice.].

•  Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.  [1913 Webster]
•  Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.  [1913 Webster]

  "Icy was the deportment with which Philip received these demonstrations of affection."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

icy, adj. (icier, iciest)
1 very cold.
2 covered with or abounding in ice.
3 (of a tone or manner) unfriendly, hostile (an icy stare).

Derivative

icily adv. iciness n.

THESAURUS

icy

Olympian, Siberian, affectless, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, autistic, backward, bashful, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blank, blast-frozen, bleak, blunt, boreal, brisk, brumal, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cold-blooded, coldhearted, congealed, constrained, cool, crisp, cutting, detached, disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frostbitten, frosted, frostnipped, frosty, frozen, frozen solid, gelid, glacial, guarded, heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy-cold, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, inclement, incompatible, indifferent, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical, insusceptible, introverted, keen, modest, nipping, nippy, nonemotional, numbing, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, penetrating, piercing, pinching, quick-frozen, raw, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, rigorous, seclusive, self-absorbed, severe, sharp, sharp-frozen, shivery, shrinking, sleety, slushy, snappy, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, stone-cold, strained, subdued, subzero, supercooled, suppressed, tense, unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable, uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withdrawn

ROGET THESAURUS

icy

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, 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.