See the video below:
Not a particularly warm video, is it?
And not a nice feeling when something like this happens in such FREEZING cold? It surely is a bad morning.
The freezing cold shown in the video above is known as frigid cold.
Frigid also depicts coldness of other types: emotional coldness or even sexual coldness (meaning the person is not response to sexual advances).
The dictionary definitions for Frigid are as follows:
1. Extremely cold.
2. Lacking warmth of feeling.
3. Stiff and formal in manner: a frigid refusal to a request.
4. Persistently averse to sexual intercourse.
Usage examples for frigid:
1. Why would anyone want to live in the frigid arctic circles?
2. Teachers are generally given to frigid responses, especially when their students ask them something tricky.
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