Meanings
comparative more frigorific · superlative most frigorific · alternative frigorifical · alternative frigorifick
- Causing to chill or cool.
"They would certainly have the soil, climate, packing technologies, and frigorific trucks."
2007, C.A. Hidalgo et al., “The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations”, in Science 317, published 58372 more examples
[W]hen vve have, as vve very frequently have, put mixtures of ſnovv and ſalt into vials, and left them in the open Air, vve generally obſerv'd, that the outſide of the Glaſs vvas cas'd vvith ice, or covered vvith hoar froſt, directly over againſt that part of the inſide of the Glaſs, vvherein the frigorifick mixture vvas.
1663, Robert Boyle, “Title V. Experiments Touching the Tendency of Cold Upwards or Downwards.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 4, page 69"Pr. LOWITZ has discovered a single frigorific mixture, by which quicksilver may be frozen..."
1801, Richard Walker, “On the Production of artificial Cold by Means of Muriate of Lime,”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, page 124Antonyms: calorific
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCausing to chill or cool.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecausing cold; cooling or chilling
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Origin
- Latinfrīgorificus
- Englishfrigorific
From Latin frīgorificus, from frigus (“cold”) + facere (“to make”): compare French frigorifique.
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frigorific. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frigorific
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