Dictionary Definition
frigid adj
1 sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his
advances"; "a frigid woman" [syn: cold]
2 extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid
day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy
hands"; "polar weather" [syn: arctic, gelid, glacial, icy, polar]
3 devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of
unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty
reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake";
"icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn: frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Latin frigidusPronunciation
frig·idAdjective
frigidRelated terms
Translations
Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal;
impassive
Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman
- Finnish: frigidi
References
Extensive Definition
Frigid may mean:
- very cold or icy
- chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal
- frigidity, female sexual arousal disorder
- frigidity, inhibited sexual desire
- Frigid, a song by American singer Khanoda from the 1994 album, Lessons Learned On Leithgow St
- Frigid Zone, either of the two geographical zones of the earth's surface within the polar circles
- FrigidNYC, an Off-Off-Broadway fringe festival hosted by Horsetrade Theatre
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Olympian, Siberian, 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, 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, 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