gelid

comparative more gelid · superlative most gelid

1. literaryVery cold; icy or frosty; frigid.

   Above the gelid source of mountain springs, ⁠A solitary eagle, circling, flies.

   1898, Florence Earle Coates, “Siberia”, in Poems

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   Of Cassandra-Marat we have spoken often; yet the most surprising truth remains to be spoken: that he actually does not want sense; but, with croaking gelid throat, croaks out masses of the truth, on several things.

   1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)

   In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close.

   2005, Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

   For a while he stares out of the window. It is twilight - cold, deepening twilight. Over the roofs of the opposite house-backs, two garden lengths away, the sky is gelid, luminous, sad. A quiet albescent yellow. Everything is very still.

   2008, David Szalay, London and the South-East