'Frigid' definitions:
Definition of 'frigid'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman" [syn: cold, frigid]
adjective
Extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar]
adjective
Definition of 'Frigid'
From: GCIDE
- Frigid \Frig"id\, a. [L. frigidus, fr. frigere to be cold; prob. akin to Gr. ? to shudder, or perh. to ? cold. Cf. Frill.]
- 1. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23? 28? from the pole. See the Note under Arctic. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'frigid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affectless,
- algid,
- aloof,
- anesthetized,
- arctic,
- asexual,
- austere,
- autistic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- below zero,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitterly cold,
- blank,
- bleak,
- blunt,
- boreal,
- brisk,
- brumal,
- callous,
- castrated,
- catatonic,
- chill,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold as death,
- cold as ice,
- cold as marble,
- cold-blooded,
- coldhearted,
- constrained,
- cool,
- crisp,
- cutting,
- detached,
- discreet,
- dispassionate,
- distant,
- drugged,
- dull,
- emasculated,
- emotionally dead,
- emotionless,
- eunuchized,
- exclusive,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- freezing,
- freezing cold,
- frosted,
- frosty,
- frozen,
- frustrated,
- gelid,
- glacial,
- guarded,
- haughty,
- heartless,
- hibernal,
- hiemal,
- hyperboreal,
- hyperborean,
- ice-cold,
- ice-encrusted,
- icelike,
- icy,
- immovable,
- impassible,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- impervious,
- impotent,
- inaccessible,
- inclement,
- indifferent,
- inexcitable,
- inhibited,
- insusceptible,
- introverted,
- keen,
- modest,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- nipping,
- nippy,
- nonemotional,
- numbing,
- obdurate,
- objective,
- obtuse,
- offish,
- Olympian,
- out of touch,
- passionless,
- passive,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pinching,
- polar,
- prim,
- raw,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- seclusive,
- self-absorbed,
- severe,
- sexless,
- sharp,
- shrinking,
- Siberian,
- sleety,
- slushy,
- snappy,
- soulless,
- spiritless,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- steely,
- stiff,
- stone-cold,
- stony,
- strait-laced,
- subdued,
- subzero,
- supercooled,
- suppressed,
- thick-skinned,
- unaffable,
- unaffectionate,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- undersexed,
- unemotional,
- unexpansive,
- unfeeling,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unimpassioned,
- unimpressionable,
- unloving,
- unpassionate,
- unresponding,
- unresponsive,
- unsexed,
- unsexual,
- unsusceptible,
- unsympathetic,
- untouchable,
- winterbound,
- winterlike,
- wintery,
- wintry,
- withdrawn