Frigid

Definition: Frigid

Frigid

Adjective

1. Sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman".

2. Extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get inside; I'm freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather".

3. Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "frigid" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Etymology: Frigid \Frig"id\, adjective. [Latin expression frigidus, from frigere to be cold; probably akin to Greek to shudder, or perhaps to cold. Compare to Frill.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Frigid

Cold

Adjective: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved. (made cold); chilled to the bone, shivering. Verb: aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.

Feebleness

Adjective: 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.

Indifference

Adjective: 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.

Insensibility

Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.

Crosswords: Frigid

Hungarian (frigid, undersexed), Romanian (frigid, icy), Swedish (frigid).

Who needs a frigid wife anyway? (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Everyone thinks I'm a frigid headcase. (Senior Trip; writing credit: Roger Kumble; I. Marlene King)

Frigid Hare (1949)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Female Difficulties: Sorority Sisters, Rodeo Queens, Frigid Women, Smut Stars and Other Modern Girls (reference)

• Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska (reference)

• Frigid Tales (reference)

• Frigid Women (reference)

• Frigid World of Cryogenics (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• I Am Frigid...Why? (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Future History of the Frigid Polar Night (reference)

• Frigid Forms Sell (reference)

• Frigid Stars (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Underway in the North Atlantic, during Operation "Frigid", 20 November 1948. Photographed by PH1 B.T. Teigan. Credit: NAVY.

A Sikorski HO3S-1 helicopter flies beside the carrier during the Second Task Fleet's Operation "Frigid", November 1948. Credit: NAVY.

Sikorski HO3S-1 helicopter in flight over the carrier's flight deck, during Operation "Frigid", November 1948. Credit: NAVY.

Alongside USS Leyte (CV-32) to refuel during "Operation Frigid" cold weather underway replenishment activities in the North Atlantic, 12 November 1948. The towing cable, used to maintain spacing between the ships, has already been rigged. Messenger lines are visible in lower center. These are employed to bring across telephone lines, refueling hoses and heavier cables that will be used to exchange mail and cargo. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

This frigid infantry remained impassible.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Peru

Climate: Coastal area, arid and mild; Andes, temperate to frigid; eastern lowlands, tropically warm and humid. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "frigid": frigid woman ♦ frigid zone ♦ North Frigid Zone ♦ South Frigid Zone. Additional references.

Ending with "frigid": semi-frigid.

Albanian

frigjid, i ftohtë (algid, aloof, bleak, bloodless, brumous, chilly, cold, cold-livered, cool, cool blooded, crimpy, distant, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, insensitive, offish, Parky, sexless, stilted, stolid, stony, winterly, wintry), i akullt (chill, cold-hearted, cutting, freezing, frozen, gelid, glacial, ice, icy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاتر (apathetic, chilly, cold, cool, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, half hearted, indifferent, languid, listless, lukewarm, slack, spiritless, stagnant, tepid, unenthusiastic, unfriendly), ‏تفه (flat, tasteless), ‏عديم الطعم (pallid), ‏بارد جنسيا (sexless, undersexed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

студен (algid, asepsis, bleak, bloodless, cold, cool, dead, frosted, frosty, gelid, iced, icy, impassive, inhuman, raw, repulsive, stony, unapproachable, undersexed, unloving, unresponsive, winterly, wintry), фригидна, мразовит (chilly, frosty, ice cold, icy), безразличен (colorless, colourless, disinterested, incurious, indifferent, insensible, lukewarm, neutral, poppied, stony, tepid, unimpressed, uninterested, unmoved, untouched). (various references)

Chinese 

�'冷 (cold, very cold). (various references)

Czech

frigidní, mrazivý (chilly, freezing, frosty, glacial, icy, nippy, winterly, wintry), chladný (bloodless, chilly, cold, cool, fresh, frosted), arktický (arctic, subarctic). (various references)

Danish

arktisk zone (Arctic Zone, North Frigid Zone, northern polar zone), antarktisk zone (Antarctic Zone, South Frigid Zone, southern polar zone). (various references)

Dutch

koud (bleak, chilly, cold). (various references)

Esperanto

frida (cold). (various references)

Faeroese

kaldur (bleak, chilly, cold), kølin (cold, cool). (various references)

Finnish

kylmä (chilly, cold). (various references)

French

froid. (various references)

German

kalt (bleakly, chilly, cold, coldly, cool, gelid, perishing, stony, unloving). (various references)

Greek 

κατεψυγμένοσ (frozen), καταψυχρόσ (gelid), ψυχρόσ (bleak, chilly, cold, cool, frosty). (various references)

Hebrew 

קפוא (congealed, frozen, glacial, iced), קר (chilly, cold, cool, crisp, icy), צו� ן (chilly, cold, fresh, frosty), � וקש�" (coarse, dour, hard, hardliner, horny, inflexible, intractable, rigid, rough, severe, starchy, stiff). (various references)

Hungarian

jeges (chill, frore, frosty, gelid, glacial, iced, icy), frigid (undersexed), fagyos (chill, chilling, frore, frosty, glacial, wintery, wintry). (various references)

Italian

frigido (chilly, cold, unloving). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'帯 (frigid zone). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�"たい (armada, fleet, friendly reception, frigid zone, hospitality, laxity, negligence, warm reception, warm welcome). (various references)

Korean 

�"운. (various references)

Manx

feayr-chooishagh (apathetic, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, languid, phlegmatic, self-possessed, unfeeling), feayr (chilly, cold, cool, distant, distant of person, frosty, icy). (various references)

Papiamen

friu (bleak, chilly, cold). (various references)

Pig Latin

igidfray

Portuguese

frio (bleak, chill, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, cool, devil may care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frost, icerink, ill, impaste, lifeless, nipping, non-com, Parky, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tepid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winterly, wintry), frígido (chilly, frosty, id), tremendo (parlous, tearing, terrible, terrific, tremendous), rígido (accomplished, dour, hard, inelastic, inflexible, iron-fisted, relentless, rigid, set, severe, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, unbending, uncomplying), indiferente (aloof, callous, chill, chilly, chippy, cool, devil may care, freezing, frosty, immaterial, impassion, incurious, indifferent, insensitive, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, negligibility, nonchalant, passive, pod, reckless, regardless, supine, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested, unresponsive), glacial (chill, freezing, frosty, gelignite, glacial, icy, winterly, wintry), gelado (bleak, chill, free for all, frosty, frozen, gelid, ice, ice cream cone, iced, iced melon, icy, nipping, winterly, wintry), apático (apathetic, apathetical, bovine, cool, drowsy, languid, lethargy, listless, prostrate, sleepy, toneless). (various references)

Romanian

frigid (icy), rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), glacial (chill, chilly, cold, damp, frigidly, frosty, gelid, glacial, icily, icy), arctic (arctic). (various references)

Russian 

фригидный, бесстрастный (affectionless, cold-livered, dispassionate, dry, impassible, impassive, passionless, stolid, unemotional). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

frigidan, leden (gelid, hyperborean, ice, icily, icy). (various references)

Spanish

frío (bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cool, distant, frosted, frosting, frosty, Parky, sharp, spent, stiff, uncommunicative), frígido. (various references)

Swedish

kylig (chill, chilly, coldish, cool, frosty, glacial, Parky, wintry). (various references)

Turkish

soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, blunt, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, senseless, soulless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved), cinsel ilişkiden zevk almayan, buz gibi (arctic, chill, freezing, gelid, icily, icy, nippy, sour, very cold, wintry), çok soğuk (awfully cold, freezing, gelid, very cold). (various references)

Ukrainian

холодний (arctic, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, gelid, icy, nippy, offish), безпристрасний (cold-livered, passionless), байдужий (apathetic, apathetical, barren, chill, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, cold-livered, disinterested, half hearted, impassible, indifferent, insensible, insentient, neutral, nonchalant, passionless, unaffected, unconcerned, uninterested, unmoved). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lạnh lẽo (chill, chilly, cold), lânh đạm nữ dục, giá lạnh (freezing), băng giá lạnh nhạt. (various references)

Welsh

rhewllyd (frosty, icy), oerllyd (chilly, cool), oer (bleak, chill, chilly, cold, sad). (various references)

frigida, frigidae, frigidam, frigidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "frigid": frigidities, frigidity, frigidly, frigidness, frigidnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Frigid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brygidy, feigi, Figeac, figie, figit, fragged, Frejjis, fridgid, Frigard, Frige, friged, friget, Frigga, frigic, frigido, frigids, Frigio, frigit, Froggit, frogi, fruid, fuigi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rigid.

-2 letters: frig, gird, grid, irid.

-3 letters: dig, fid, fig, fir, gid, rid, rif, rig.

-4 letters: id, if.

+2 letters: drifting, frigidly, rigidify.

+3 letters: differing, disfigure, filigreed, friending, frigidity, glorified, gratified, infringed, nigrified, refinding.

+4 letters: debriefing, disfigured, disfigures, driftingly, faradising, faradizing, forbidding, frigidness, gentrified, girlfriend, grainfield, redefining, reedifying, rigidified, rigidifies.

+5 letters: befriending, debriefings, diffracting, disfavoring, disfiguring, disfrocking, frigidities, fundraising, girlfriends, grainfields, predefining, recodifying, remodifying, rigidifying, windsurfing.

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