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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
frigid
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
frigid winds
▪ a frigid look
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A frigid wind surged through the arches, producing a ghoulish whine.
▪ At night, they sleep on hammocks in plastic-sheeting shelters or on the frigid, rain-soaked earth.
▪ It took Robyn ages to peel away the sodden material from her frigid skin.
▪ On Friday morning we awoke to frigid temperatures and a San Juan River running at about 500 cubic feet per second.
▪ There was lots of kissing and hair-stroking going on, which always makes onlookers feel rather frigid and inadequate.
▪ Wide-eyed children bounced on the knees of smiling nurses in rooms well heated against a frigid winter day.
▪ Within several months of landing, the daily shock of frigid cold and oven heat will crack the brain chips into uselessness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frigid

Frigid \Frig"id\, a. [L. frigidus, fr. frigere to be cold; prob. akin to Gr. ? to shudder, or perh. to ? cold. Cf. Frill.]

  1. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.

  2. 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.

  3. Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
    --Johnson.

    Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23? 28? from the pole. See the Note under Arctic.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frigid

1620s, "intensely cold," from Latin frigidus "cold, chill, cool," figuratively "indifferent," also "flat, dull, trivial," from stem of frigere "be cold;" related to noun frigus "cold, coldness, frost," from Proto-Italic *srigos-, from PIE root *srig- "cold" (cognates: Greek rhigos "cold, frost"). The meaning "wanting in sexual heat" is attested from 1650s, originally of males. Related: Frigidly; frigidness.

Wiktionary
frigid

a. Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.

WordNet
frigid
  1. adj. sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman" [syn: cold]

  2. extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn: arctic, gelid, glacial, icy, polar]

  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" [syn: frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry]

Wikipedia
Frigid

Frigid may refer to

  • Cold
  • Polar region or frigid zone, one of the two geographical zones of the Earth's surface within the polar circles
  • FRIGID New York, an Off-Off-Broadway festival hosted by Horsetrade Theatre
  • Hypoactive sexual desire disorder, also called frigidity
Frigid (geography)

Usage examples of "frigid".

Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of frigid politeness.

In spite of the three air conditioners aft blowing frigid air into the room to help cool the electronics, the space had grown airless and hot.

Frigid water whipped in a convection wind, then streamed from their bodies, running from their noses, blinding their eyes with the algid wind.

The filing of the decree of the Senate had acted like a charm upon our Capo of the Ten: the importance thus accorded to the Ca' Giustiniani soothed every vestige of wounded pride, while the beauty and grace of his prospective daughter-in-law had filled him with a triumph which only the frigid stateliness of his habitual demeanor enabled him to conceal, so great was the revulsion from his former state of feeling.

Then slowly, comically, cursing at the inevitability caused by a broken cinch strap, the man had slid, feet caught in suddenly loose stirrups, upside-down under the dnu and into the frigid water.

She had dropped Chucky off at his house and picked up Reheema, who had been sitting on his front steps, simmering despite the frigid temperature.

To revenge herself upon Edd Denmeade she had determined to be frigid to him and as sweet as she could make herself to every other boy there, particularly Sam Johnson.

We entered the frigid drum tower, passed the well and the garderobe, then moved into the silent hall by the dining room and kitchen.

The winter suit he was wearing at that moment was as much like a spacesuit as the designers could make it, and the frigid numbing downvalley breeze was like breathing purified oxygen just gasified from liquid stock, and insufficiently warmed.

During the night, Hitchcock had evidently decided against the hooked rug on the frigid floor and joined her in bed.

Appleton Manor had passed, but in its aftermath a frigid, howling wind gusted, creating of the newly fallen snow such deep drifts that Jennet knew she must abandon all hope of an immediate departure for Kent.

The man was short and jowly, his balding head exposed to the frigid night air and a pair of plain, black spectacles perched upon his bulbous, somewhat florid nose.

And all of them were exuding combat-stink of such loathsomeness that even the frigid blast of the wind did not suffice to protect those nearby.

At another time, Merissa would have shot him a frigid look that would have frosted his conceit.

For most of its short year the moon known as Naos III was a frigid little orb with days that never seemed to end.