frigid
adj/ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪd/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos.
1
Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
- A frigid, fine rain was falling.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 427:
- Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.2013 March 23, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2016, page 98:
2
Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
3
Colloquial Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.
- In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 125:
- Antonyms
- fervid
- Derived terms
- anemofrigid, frigidity, frigidization, frigidly, frigidness, frigid zone, infrigidant, nonfrigid, unfrigid