Meaning

3 senses
  1. Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.

    о́чень холо́дныйóčenʹ xolódnyj, моро́зныйmoróznyj

    extremely cold

  2. Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.

  3. (colloquial)Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.

    kalt

    фриги́дныйfrigídnyj

    sexually unresponsive

Examples

8 sentences
  1. The frigid air stung our faces.

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  2. Tom fell through the ice into the frigid water.

    deTom fiel durch das Eis in das kalte Wasser.

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  3. In the frigid, autumnal air, icy droplets plummeted to the ground.

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  4. Rima is really frigid.

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  5. The weather is exceptionally frigid.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
very cold:
sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, col

Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos.

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Forms

more frigid/frigider, most frigid/frigidest
Comparativemore frigid / frigider Lesson
Superlativemost frigid / frigidest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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