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Synonyms for icy

  • adjective

Most common

cold frosty stone-cold stony frigid wintry ice-covered glacious

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Cold — characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold

cold, frosty, stone-cold, stony, harsh, severe, heartless, tough, forbidding, uncaring, indifferent, unsympathetic, rigorous, grim, dour, austere, inclement, callous, hard-hearted, hardened, stern, unmoved

2. Frigid

frigid, wintry, glacial, freezing cold, ice-cold, frozen, freezing, arctic, polar, gelid formal, hyemal, nippy, boreal, hibernal, sleety, brumal, hiemal rare

3. Ice-covered — covered with ice, wholly or partially

ice-covered, frosted, iced-over, icebound, rimed, frostbound

4. Glacious — pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty

glacious, wintrified rare

Other

slippery, bejeweled, icelike

Antonyms

hot, thermal, burning

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.

  2. adj. 2

    Covered with ice, wholly or partially.

  3. adj. 3

    Characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold.

  4. adj. 4

    To be wearing an excessive amount of jewelry, especially of the high-quality and expensive kind.

Related words

Phrases
icy noctiluca icy pole

Example sentences

  • harsh Some people live far removed from harsh realities.
  • stony Can you lend me some money? I'm stony broke.
  • frosty Young plants should be protected in frosty weather.
  • frigid Tom fell through the ice into the frigid water.
  • wintry The snowflakes danced gracefully in the wintry air.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
icyrising
harshrising
stonysteady
frostyrising
frigidrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
cold1, grim1, dour2
5 letters
tough1, harsh1, polar2, stern1, stony2, nippy2, gelid, rimed
6 letters
severe2, frozen2, arctic2, frosty2, frigid2, wintry2, boreal, sleety, hyemal, brumal, hiemal
7 letters
glacial2, callous2, austere2, frosted2, unmoved2, icelike
8 letters
freezing2, rigorous3, slippery3, hardened2, uncaring3, icebound, hibernal, glacious
9 letters
heartless2, inclement3, bejeweled
10 letters
forbidding3, frostbound, wintrified
11 letters
indifferent3
13 letters
unsympathetic5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dour2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
glacé
Deutsch
eisig